[Kosmo]

I'm having a bit of a problem with GoLive's floating boxes...

First is precise positioning. No matter how I position the floating box I must also tweak it the the 'left' 'top' dialog boxes. Anybody know if this is a bug or what? How about a work-around?

Second, I specify a Font size of '2' and a face of 'Arial' in the floating box and it looks fine in my browers, IE, Netscape, OmniWeb, iCab, it looks like size '2'. I had several friends look at this and one person had his font size manually larger in IE (which is a horrible feature for Web Developers IMHO) but several of them have their font set as 'default'.

I'm trying to get text to display on a rollover inside a TiBook screen and on my monitors it seems to work, but not on others.

Is there a way to force the font (other than creating a bitmap image of it) to display as I intended and not the way the customer or broswer 'wants' to display it?

Thanks, great forum idea

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by Kosmo:
<STRONG>Second, I specify a Font size of '2' and a face of 'Arial' in the floating box and it looks fine in my browers, IE, Netscape, OmniWeb, iCab, it looks like size '2'. I had several friends look at this and one person had his font size manually larger in IE (which is a horrible feature for Web Developers IMHO) but several of them have their font set as 'default'.
</STRONG>

There is one way around this type ( ) of problem and I can't say it enough.
STOP using the &lt;font face&gt; type tags, and use a .CSS style sheet instead.
For controling all the type atributes all across your site nothing beats 'em. you can sat your type to be say 10 pixels tall, and it will always be that size nomatter what weard settings people have in there browser.

[Kosmo]

Can you tell me a bit more about how I might do this? Like tell me in steps...

Step 1:
Step 2:

I would appreciate it a lot.

[SunSeeker]

There are some tutorials on this at the Adobe web site. http://www.adobe.com/web/tips/glvvtco/main.html (stylesheets) http://www.adobe.com/web/features/css/main.html

Start off with external style sheets as soon as possible, its not as difficult as it looks and it will save a whole lot of work in the future.

Come back when you have problems or questions.

The floating box thing might be connected to the version of GoLive, there is a small default offset in the html from both versions.
In version 5 you can turn it off in the page inspector (set margin width and height to zero) and in 4 you have to add a piece of code in source view.

Here is the code, it goes in the body

leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0"

edit:I think the offset is built into the browsers??

[ 06-13-2001: Message edited by: SunSeeker ]