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default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone

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Dale

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Mar 13, 2022, 4:30:21 PM3/13/22
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default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone

referring to <p>

my site has a bunch ...

https://www.dalekelly.org/

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Dale

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Mar 13, 2022, 8:54:54 PM3/13/22
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On 3/13/2022 4:30 PM, Dale wrote:
> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>
> referring to <p>
>
> my site has a bunch ...
>
> https://www.dalekelly.org/
>

what about bootstrap?

Arno Welzel

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Mar 14, 2022, 10:08:25 AM3/14/22
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Dale:

> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>
> referring to <p>
>
> my site has a bunch ...
>
> https://www.dalekelly.org/

What means "too small" exactly? Text size? Text width?


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Dale

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Mar 14, 2022, 1:19:09 PM3/14/22
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On 3/14/2022 10:08 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> Dale:
>
>> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>>
>> referring to <p>
>>
>> my site has a bunch ...
>>
>> https://www.dalekelly.org/
>
> What means "too small" exactly? Text size? Text width?
>
>

size

I see width a part of size

Philip Herlihy

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Mar 14, 2022, 2:29:59 PM3/14/22
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In article <t0ntea$hqp$1...@dont-email.me>, da...@dalekelly.org says...
>
> On 3/14/2022 10:08 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
> > Dale:
> >
> >> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
> >>
> >> referring to <p>
> >>
> >> my site has a bunch ...
> >>
> >> https://www.dalekelly.org/
> >
> > What means "too small" exactly? Text size? Text width?
> >
> >
>
> size
>
> I see width a part of size

Thank you for clearing that up.

Folks - our friend may simply be an enthusiastic beginner becoming a little too
dependent on being spoon-fed. But is it not possible that he's deliberately
stringing us along? In any event, patience has its limits.

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Lewis

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Mar 14, 2022, 2:55:59 PM3/14/22
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In message <t0ntea$hqp$1...@dont-email.me> Dale <da...@dalekelly.org> wrote:
> On 3/14/2022 10:08 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Dale:
>>
>>> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>>>
>>> referring to <p>
>>>
>>> my site has a bunch ...
>>>
>>> https://www.dalekelly.org/
>>
>> What means "too small" exactly? Text size? Text width?

> size

That's still not an answer.

> I see width a part of size

So you want paragraphs to be wider than the screen on an iPhone? That's
a terrible idea.

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Arno Welzel

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Mar 14, 2022, 3:36:30 PM3/14/22
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Dale:

> On 3/14/2022 10:08 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Dale:
>>
>>> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>>>
>>> referring to <p>
>>>
>>> my site has a bunch ...
>>>
>>> https://www.dalekelly.org/
>>
>> What means "too small" exactly? Text size? Text width?
>>
>>
>
> size
>
> I see width a part of size

No, width is not part of size.

Example:

.myclass { width:100%; }

This defines a class "myclass" which sets an element 100% wide. And it
does not matter at all what size the text is.

If your text seems to be too small you just need to adjust font-size to
a value bigger than 1em.

Dale

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Mar 14, 2022, 6:37:19 PM3/14/22
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okay, that is the width of the paragraph not the size of the text in it

Dale

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Mar 14, 2022, 6:39:48 PM3/14/22
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I've been hacking away at HTML for around 30 years

Dale

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Mar 14, 2022, 6:44:13 PM3/14/22
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Thank You !!!!

got to find "em"

Lewis

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Mar 14, 2022, 10:31:39 PM3/14/22
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So you are saying the font size is smaller than you want. That would
have been helpful at the beginning. However, keep in mind, that you have
no actual control over things like font size, regardless of what you set.

in head:
#v+
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" />
#v-

in style:

#v+
@media screen
and (min-width: 200px)
and (max-width: 800px)
{
p: font-size: 120%
}
#v-

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Arno Welzel

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Mar 15, 2022, 4:01:34 AM3/15/22
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Dale:

> On 3/14/2022 2:29 PM, Philip Herlihy wrote:
[...]
>> Folks - our friend may simply be an enthusiastic beginner becoming a little too
>> dependent on being spoon-fed. But is it not possible that he's deliberately
>> stringing us along? In any event, patience has its limits.
>>
>
> I've been hacking away at HTML for around 30 years

Seems you didn't learn much about CSS though in this time.

Dale

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Mar 15, 2022, 5:31:26 AM3/15/22
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I did admit I was a hack

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

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Mar 22, 2022, 7:24:21 PM3/22/22
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Dale amok-crossposted to 4(!) newsgroups:

No Usenet posting is that important that it needs to be posted to more
than 3 newsgroups (especially without Followup-To). If World War Ⅲ is
going to be announced, it will be announced in news.announce.important.

(after Peter da Silva)

> default HTML paragraph styles are too small on iPhone
>
> referring to <p>
>
> my site has a bunch ...
>
> https://www.dalekelly.org/

Probably the font size is not too small per se, but you are just looking at
a zoomed-out version because you have not done any mobile optimization of
your site yet. Use Google Webmaster Tools for further advice.

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