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[senit] text size and search boxes

Charlie Danger charlie.danger at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 20 16:25:00 GMT 2007

Article: [senit] text size and search boxes

On the client end you can always use your browser's text size control as
this affects form text as well as other text on the page. Most pages. Well -
certainly works with google.com.

Or you could use the PageZoom feature found in IE7.


>From a page author's end you can easily achieve larger fonts using CSS.

I'll knock up a quick example and post it here in a bit.

On 20/02/07, david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> hi anyone know how to make the text size in webpage
> search engine boxes bigger. This is so students with
> SLD who can type will find it easier to search. Have
> changed apparent html size parameters in offline
> versions of these search pages but doesn't seem to
> change the size of text entered into the box.
> Ideally the text size would be 48pt and the box height
> correspondingly greater than normal.
> If you could send me any samples of html as text that
> I can copy and paste that would be great or any simple
> examples on the web.
> thanks
> David
>
>
>
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