I noticed that my site looks crappy when you resize the text in IE. I want to prevent people from doing it. It strikes me that CSS may just be the answer. How do I make it so that people can't resize the text?

Thanks for the help

As far as I know this is not possible.

I wouldn't recommend doing it anyway. Browsers provide the text size control so that people with impaired vision (or just stupidly high resolution monitors ) can actually read the text on your site. Virtually any website's layout will break if you enlarge the text enough. The exception to this is the Opera browser which magnifies the whole page including images etc.

I found a way to do it. You use

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">text</span>

After reading your post, however, I'm not sure I want to do it anymore...

Here's how to do it using CSS:

p {font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }

Oh yeah... /me slaps forehead, you can just do it with pixel sizes.... duh....

i try not force people to use one size. typically when designing a layout ill increase the font size twice to so what happens to layout. although with certain sites of mine i know they aren't there for the reading so on those i really dont even bother with that. i figure people who increase the font size to really large sizes have probably learned already that it can break layouts.

So, it is not advised to disable text size changes? In most layouts, changing the size totally screws up the layout. I think the target audience can be taken into consideration, and the text size can be restricted depending on what type of users are most likely to visit the site.

You can't stop people resizing text in Firefox. Is it only IE you're worried about?