Web Style Press, Best Practices from all the Web, Build Better Websites » HTML http://www.webstylepress.com Web VS Style Mon, 26 Dec 2011 10:35:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How to Control Font Size in Percentage http://www.webstylepress.com/how-to-control-font-size-in-percentage/ http://www.webstylepress.com/how-to-control-font-size-in-percentage/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:17:45 +0000 Hiroshi http://www.webstylepress.com/?p=526 How to Control Font Size in Percentage is a post from: Web Style Press, Best Practices from all the Web, Build Better Websites

]]> font-percentagesTo control fonts in percentage is the easiest method which we can choose while playing with the fluid layouts, or perhaps while working with widgets and web 2.0 elements.

It is recommended while working with layouts that we define a standard font size for html and body. In the beginning there were loose style for fonts. Nobody used to care about styling fonts. Then in the design era of computer age, designers developed and adopted techniques to control different design aspects of websites and usually most popular standard was to choose 11px to 12 px font for HTML. Many years this technique prevailed until web 2.0 arrived and some web architects decides that fonts must be clear and bold. So now designers and developers adopt a technique to display large font sizes. Font size, color, face are also a part of the design. Here is how we can control font by percentage as a unit for font size. 

<div style="font-size: 100%;">100 %</div>
<div style="font-size: 150%;">150 %</div>
<div style="font-size: 300%;">300 %</div>
<div style="font-size: 400%;">400 %</div>
<div style="font-size: 500%;">500 %</div>
<div style="font-size: 600%;">600 %</div>

There are other font size units too e.g. pixels, points, inches, cm, mm etc. Percentage is one of these. Widely used as a standard is em unit for font size, which is considered to be the same for all browsers if browser compatibility is in mind.

<div style="font-size: 12px;">12 px</div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;">12 pt</div>
<div style="font-size: 0.5in;">0.5 in</div>
<div style="font-size: 1cm;">1 cm</div>
<div style="font-size: 12mm;">12 mm</div>
<div style="font-size: 2pc;">2 pc</div>
<div style="font-size: 2em;">2 em</div>
<div style="font-size: 6ex;">12 ex</div>

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]]> Links are the Web’s number one interaction element. Violating common expectations for how links work is a sure way to confuse and delay users, and might prevent them from being able to use your site. Lets see what Markup Gurus say about links, and when links meet the standard or non-standard criteria. The usability guideline for any type of navigational design is to help users understand three major points:

  • Where they’ve been?
  • Where they are?
  • Where they can go (past, present, and future)?

These three are interrelated: If we consider browsing a site, a journey; then knowing your past and present locations makes it easier to decide where to go next.

Standard Guidelines for Links

  • Make obvious what’s clickable.
    For text links, use colored or underlined text.
  • Don’t underline non-link text.
  • Differentiate visited and unvisited links.
  • Explain what users will find at the other end of the link via ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags to enhance scannability and search engine optimization (SEO).
  • Don’t use “click here” or other non-descriptive link text.
  • Avoid JavaScript or other fancy techniques (flash) that break standard interaction techniques for dealing with links.
  • Don’t open pages in new windows (except for different files i.e. PDF files).

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]]> Ever experienced a problem when regular image HTML code is displaying images in firefox but not displaying in internet explorer? If you are facing the same problem then consider taking care of following points:

  • Do not name images as ‘banner’. This can cause problems with some antivirus software or browser add-on.
  • validate the html document and css file. You can lose a lot of time trying to fix something when there are errors in your code.
    W3C Validator – HTML
    W3C Validator – CSS
  • Check for valid code – make sure all tags are closed.
    You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to “self-close” an element, that is, ending it with “/>” instead of “>” in case of XHTML
  • Check that ‘show pictures’ option is enabled in IE.
    Go to tools > Internet Options > Multimedia > Show Pictures

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]]> This code is property of http://www.cgiscript.net and original updated code can be found from there.

Purpose of this tool is to lock the HTML code. If you want to secure your HTML code or any part of web page then this tool is very useful for that.

Download Code Locker Tool

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]]> DIV based table less websites are common (essential, precisely speaking) now a days. Web 2.0 Web style is also about DIV based Validated websites. DIV is a little bit tricky to handle than simple tables. Here are few very essential known issues which I have been facing and their solutions.

Blank Line Spaces Problem

Sometimes we use blank DIV. Suppose we use a DIV of 1px height. But its empty. Its behavior in IE and Firefox will be different. To avoid that use [ & n b s p ; ] or place blank gif image of 1px height in that.

Top-Padding Issue

Do not give top-padding to any element which is in div containing id as in example beneath:

<div id="some-id">
 <div class="some-class">
  text
 </div>
</div>

In above case top padding will be applied at class named as some-class and not at id named some-id.

Content Overlaps In spite of Not Using BR (line breaks)

Well, consider header, content and footer. These are three parts of website and in some cases if they just overlaps then you are missing clear both property of CSS.

Use clear:both; in css for every different part of website, for line break.

~~ Header ~~
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
~~ Body ~~
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
~~ Footer ~~

Vertical Alignment of Content In DIV

Things will be always top aligned in case of DIV.
So when placing images in the center of box then you will have to use top padding for that image via CSS.

UL LI List Padding Margin Problem In DIV

UL, LI have default spacings (padding and margin). Whether you define these 0 in CSS or whatever, the spacing between li will be different in IE and Firefox which is not ok when you are placing two lists besides each other and you require same height for both Lists.

Use line-height for li distances and not padding or margin and define max-height property in CSS for UL tag.

Naming Classes

Start class or id names with text and not with numbers.

i.e.
class=”nav” is ok
class=”2-nav” is not ok

Blocked Elements and Inline Elements

Tags with default line breaks are blocked elements while tags with no default line break are inline elements. You can write inline elements in the same line but not blocked elements.
i.e.
DIV, p are blocked elements.
strong, a, span are inline elements.

Difference Between ID and Class

Id is unique throughout the website. Id can not be used more than once in a web page. While you can use the same class for many tags in html.
id is unique and is not repeated throughout site but class can be applied at multiple tags.

Div With Blank Bottom Padding

Sometimes even when we define div height and there are no breaks after that but it takes some space or bottom padding and pushes next content a little more down.

Use overflow hidden property at that div via CSS, containing image, data or whatever which is causing bottom blank space (this problem occurs usually in i.e.6).

overflow:hidden;

Float and Align

mozilla firefox looks for float for alignment and not the text-align. Floating for DIV is shifting Whole DIV to right or left while aligning left or right for DIV is left or right alignment of data or content containing that DIV.

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]]> I have described about using nice and clean fonts in web page. Now lets see some more details about using fonts in web pages.

As we know Verdana, Arial and Tahoma are being used from the beginning. In Web 2.0 Style, and many open source softwares such as WordPress, now-a-days some other fonts are being used which are neat and clean and stylish too. Best part is, to use these, no installation of fonts is needed. In Windows XP these are present by default. I have selected some examples of look and feel of some chosen fonts over here.

Font Styles Comparison

Arial “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Verdana “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Tahoma “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Trebuchet MS “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Georgia “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Lucida Grande “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Lucida Sans Unicode “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

sans-serif “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.”

Font Families

It happens so that we can define a family of fonts while creating web page. If one font is not available in user’s machine; then next font style will be displayed. i.e

<style type="text/css">
.myfont { font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
</style>

Suppose Geneva is not present in user’s machine, then system will pick next font Arial for style. So it is recommended to use font-families.

The font-family property is a prioritized list of font family names and/or generic family names for an element. The browser will use the first value it recognizes.

There are two types of font-family values:
* family-name: The name of a font-family, like “times”, “courier”, “arial”, etc.
* generic-family: The name of a generic-family, like “serif”, “sans-serif”, “cursive”, “fantasy”, “monospace”.

Separate each value with a comma, and always offer a generic-family name as the last alternative.

If a family-name contains white-space, it should be quoted. Single quotes must be used when using the “style” attribute in HTML.

Here is the list of font families commonly available on all systems.

Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif
‘Courier New’, Courier, monospace
Georgia, ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif
Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif

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]]> Previously We used to embed flash files in web pages via simple embed method which pops up flash settings alert or Flash Settings Manager. Following way is to embed Flash movie (swf file) in web page using Javascript which will play for all browsers and will not alert you for flash settings.

Old Way Of Embeding SWF In Web Pages
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="200" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<embed src="mymovie.swf" width="200" height="100" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" menu="false"></embed>
</object>

We had to go to Flash Global Settings Manager to set settings to stop that pop up window.

New Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 provides a way to embed flash files in web pages via javascript by using AC_RunActiveContent.js file.

Suppose I have swf movie named as mymovie.swf. I will embed it in web page by using following method. You will need AC_RunActiveContent.js file which Adobe Dreamweaver provides while you embed swf in web pages.

For Head Section Of Page
<script src="AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Embeding SWF Via Javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','200','height','100','src','mymovie','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','mymovie' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="100">
  <param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf">
  <param name="quality" value="high">
  <embed src="mymovie.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="100"></embed>
</object></noscript>

* For above example, you will have to change the movie name at four places. Two times it appears as mymovie.swf and two times as mymovie in code above and movie’s height and width three times too.

Download Full Script

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]]> Here is resource of Complete HTML tags, reference, Appendix, complete list of tags and more.

Appendix Contents

Basic Document Tags
Style/Formatting Tags
Block Elements
Form Elements
Hypertext Link Elements
Image and Sound Tags
List Elements
Table Elements
Character Entities
Latin 1 Character Set (Named Character Entities)
Numbered Character Entities

Visit Appendix A

Appendix B (HTML Quick Reference)

Contents:

HTML Tags
Structure Tags
Headings and Title
Paragraphs and Regions
Links
Lists
Character Formatting
Other Elements
Images, Sounds, and Embedded Media
Forms
Tables
Frames
Character Entities

Visit Appendix B

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]]> Email Riddler is an online tool that encrypts and transform your email address into a series of numbers when displaying it, making it virtually impossible for spam harvesters to crawl and add your email to their list.

Generate Secure Email Link

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]]> simple email link

Following is a standard way of adding an email link to a web page.

<a href="mailto:name@gmail.com">Mail Me</a>

Lets customize its details.

Email Link Customization

This is how we customize it in detail.

<a href="mailto:name@gmail.com
?Subject=feedback
&Cc=someone@somewhere.com
&Bcc=jadi@msn.com
&amp;Body=Please contact me about some web services">
Mail Me</a>

Email customization

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