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So, you've slaved away for hours crafting the perfect Web page. It fills
your browser window just perfectly. Now it is time to show it off to your friends. Unfortunately, when they see it, it is scrunched into one corner of the browser window. What went wrong? Well, your images were not scaling to fit the window, that's what happened. When you specify an image in HTML, you can do it like this: <IMG SRC="image.gif">but it would better to do it like this: <IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=80 HEIGHT=40>which makes sure that the browser reserves some screen space for the image. The numbers represent the dimensions in pixels. This causes a problem if you want the page to scale to fit the browser window. To overcome this problem, you can specify the dimensions in percentages of the window dimensions: <IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=10% HEIGHT=6%> You can also mix percentage and pixel values: <IMG SRC="image.gif" WIDTH=10% HEIGHT=10> Now if we could only scale the text as a percentage of the window size... |
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