It sounds to me as though you are expecting font sizes to be static on all browsers/platforms. This is categorically not how HTML works. First of all, no two combinations of browser and computer OS can agree on how to render any font, at any defined size. Second, your design should expect that, respect that (particularly if you are expecting visually-disabled visitors – it’s the law in many countries that your page should remain visible and readable even at extreme font sizes), and react intentionally to that. (Design for variations, because they will always occur.)
If you draw an HTML box, fill it with a color or photo, send it to back, and give it a defined height, it will never react to changes in the other elements on the page. They are as if drawn on different (stacked) sheets of glass.
To make a background color on your page, separate from the background color of the browser window, you can use the separate Page and Window background pickers in Freeway Pro 6. If this doesn’t give you precisely the look you want, you can also create a nested inline layout, which will respond to font size changes by growing as you expect. There are approximately 1,000 threads on the Web archive of this mailing list related to inline layouts, many tagged with “box-model” as a description. http://www.freewaytalk.net/search_results.html?forum=0&person=0&object=message&search=inline+layout
Finally, if you post a link to your page, and describe what you see wrong with it, you will get a lot more informed answer from anyone here.
Walter
On Jul 16, 2013, at 8:31 AM, Will wrote:
Mark,
I have experienced similar issues with items–text and graphic. What I see in Freeway isn’t always what I get in a browser.
I, too, would like to understand.
Will
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