How to control format of text output from a script

[TexasEngineer]

I'm using a script (Javascript 1.2) to display the current date on a page I'm building. The text is output to the page using document.write ( ); in the script.

The resulting text however changes size when the browser settings change. In IE 6.0 View-Text Size-Smallest....or Medium or Largest, etc.

I've got other text on my page that is controlled by internal style sheets, so this text doesn't change size when I change the browser settings. How can I similarly control the text that is output by my date script, and other scripts?

Thanks.

 

[dwarfthrower]

Instead of using document.write, set the .innerText property
of a span that starts off empty - but with your chosen style applied.

eg: [tt]<span id="dateDisplay" class="smallFont"/>[/tt]

Then your script can be along the lines of:

function writeDate(strDateText){
 document.getElementById("dateDisplay").innerText = strDateText;
}

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[monksnake]

You can control the text by defining CSS classes in the elements that you are outputing in the document.write statement. In the class of the CSS specify the font-size.
When you actually specify the font-size the browser won't change the size of the font when changing the Text Size property in IE6.
Example:

document.write('<p class="paraClass">color1: ' + color + '</p>');

In your CSS in the head of your HTML you will have:

p.paraClass {
   font-size:12pt;
}

This is really more of an HTML/CSS forum question but oh well there's an answer for you.




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