Text, this is puzzeling me

dcjones

Hi All,

I have a script with the following:

echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red>Description</td>";
echo "<td><font face=arial size=-6 ".$row["descript"] ."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red>Address</font></td>";
echo "<td>".$row["street"]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red></font></td>";
echo "<td>".$row["suburb"]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align=left><font face=arial size=-6 color=red></font></td>";
echo "<td>".$row["town"]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";

Where I have "<font face=arial size=-6 color=red>"
the script does not seem to pick those settings up, why idea why, or am i just plain blind.

Many thanks

DCJ

bastien

or are the allowed sizes from 1 to 7? Your size of -6 might be the problem...or consider linking a stylesheet to have better control over the font

winterbeef

Originally posted by bastien
or are the allowed sizes from 1 to 7? Your size of -6 might be the problem...or consider linking a stylesheet to have better control over the font

bastien is right; only 1 - 7 is allowed, and 3 is the default. So (-2) is the same as (1).

...In the <HEAD>:
<style>
td.small {font-size:6pt; font-face:Arial;}
</style>

...In your table
<td class=small>yer text</td>

That should give you something like what you want...

dcjones

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies, but I use "font size=-6" in a lot of my scripts and it works very well. An example:

echo "\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing\"1\">" .
"\n\t<td width=\"30%\" bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\" size=\"-1\" >Name</td>" .
"\n\t<td width=\"25%\" bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\" size=\"-1\" face=\"arial\">Location</td>" .
"\n\t<td width=\"16%\" bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\" size=\"-1\" >County</td>" .
"\n\t<td width=\"16%\" bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\" size=\"-1\" >Your Awards</td>" .
"\n\t<td width=\"16%\" bgcolor=\"#990000\"><font color=\"white\" size=\"-1\" >Tariff</td>" .
"\n</tr>";

This is apart of another script and by using "-6" it gives me a very small font size. Strange that you should both say the same thing.
I do use Dreamwaver UltaDev to write my scripts and this allows the "-6" font size.

But I will follow your advise for this script.

Many thanks

DCJ