On my old baby notebook I would like to reduce the size of the "Smallest" font in Internet Explorer 5.5 to reduce scrolling.

Are the actual sizes (in points) set somewhere for each of the rather vague font sizes (Smallest, Smaller, Medium, Larger, Largest)?

Thanks,
Jez

You could try another browser that can zoom in and out

Thanks for the reply to my question.

I have tried Opera in particular, but the scaling is hideous, suffers from aliasing and the menus and stuff use even more screen real estate than IE5.5.

As I say, I would like to simply reduce the font size of the "Smallest" font in IE.

Cheers,
Jez

I could be wrong but I beleive font sizes are dictated by the standards of HTML. They are not measured in points but by a numeric value of 1-5. One being the smallest and five being the largest.

If you are writing the .html document then you can specify a font size and they will be displayed relative to how the individual is viewing it.

For example; at the very bottom of this page you will find the Computing.net disclaimer. It was written with Font size = 1 but I, while viewing in Medium text size, can hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel up two clicks then that font becomes smaller than the 'smallest' size (and is almost unreadable).
Same is true for this sentence.

So, if the webpage author has written the page in a font size of "1" then you could get it smaller then 'smallest' otherwise no.

Who knows...maybe there is a way around it that I am not familiar with. Could be.

Regards,
Bryan

An alternative would be to set your resolution to a different size to prevent scrolling.

Depending on what your monitor will support, normal sizes are:

640 x 480 Usually not used much anymore.
800 x 600 Most pages recommend this.
1024 x 768 Some pages are set up for this.

The higher the numbers, the less scrolling.
Go to Control Panel-->Display-->Settings.

sekirt

This post is in size #2

FONT SIZE="2" FACE="Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica"

Font size twelve is HUGE!

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