Font Size Settings in the overlibmws DHTML Popup Library   maintained by Foteos Macrides at Macrides Web Services Discuss these examples, seek help, and offer suggestions for font size support via the overlibmws Support Group.

This table compares font sizes produced with your browser's current settings by five CSS font-size methods versus the integer method for the parameters of the TEXTSIZE, CAPTIONSIZE, CLOSESIZE and PRINTSIZE commands in overlibmws.

PX:  CSS method with #px font-size  (e.g. TEXTSIZE, '13px')  PT:  CSS method with #pt font-size   (e.g. TEXTSIZE, '10pt')  %:  CSS method with #% font-size   (e.g. TEXTSIZE, '83%') EM:  CSS method with #em font-size  (e.g. TEXTSIZE, '.83em') Absolute:  CSS method with absolute font-size  (e.g. TEXTSIZE, 'x-small') Integer:  Integer method for font size  (e.g. TEXTSIZE, 2)

PX	PT	%¹	EM¹	Absolute	Integer²
9px	7pt	58%	.58em	xx-small	1
11px	8pt	67%	.67em	xx-small	1
13px	10pt	83%	.83em	x-small	2
16px	12pt	100%	1em	small	3
19px	14pt	117%	1.17em	medium	4
24px	18pt	150%	1.5em	large	5
32px	24pt	200%	2em	x- large	6
¹Percentages are based on a 12pt font = 100% (1em). Calculate 8pt/12pt=67%. Try varying your browser settings, e.g.: on IE use View | Text Size on NS6/7 use Ctrl + or - on NS4 use Ctrl ] or [
²The valid range for integer parameters is 1 (default) to 7, equivalent to the integer values for the size attribute of the font element.  But overlibmws does not actually use the depricated font element in the popup markup it generates for browsers that can respect the W3C Strict DTDs.

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