Russell,

There few ways you can approach this.  The way I would do it (the browser agnostic way):

1.  When page loads, check for a cookie that you will set later if not set.  If font-size cookie is present, goto #3, else goto #2.
2.  If no cookie, redirect to a page that asks a user for his preference on font-size (make it easy, like small, medium, large, for .39 cents more you can have the super-size, etc.).  Set the cookie at that point.  Go back to #1.
3. Read the cookie, depending on the value is which style sheet or inline style you'd write this out to the client (all of this is happening on server-side code, such as asp or php.)  So you'd have an if valuestoredincookie=1 then font-size:12pt, else font-size:8pt, etc.

All of this can be done in a server-size include file, and you just would have to have a reference to the include file at the top of each page (embedded within your style tag), assuming you have the capability to do server-side scripting.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Bob


Russell McMahon <apptech@PARADISE.NET.NZ> wrote ..
> There are a zillion pages and people out there which/who can advise on
> HTML.
> BUT I'm running up against a crucial deadline.
> And I can't find the answers.
> HTML is a new area to me.
> Other excuses .......
>
> What I want is a way to force a browser to START at the font display size
> settings of MY choice. I'm happy for people to adjust it to suit after
> they
> open the page but I'd prefer it to initially appear at what I consider
> optimum size.
>
> At present this seems to depend on user browser setting.
>
> Is there any way to control this.
> ie if I'm using 12 point text in a  document I'd like it to appear as
> something of similar size.
> 12 point, when printing, is the smallest size to use if you don't want
> more
> than small majority to find it uncomfortably small.
>
> Any advice.
>
>
>         Russell McMahon
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