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Chapter 5 ✦ Body Text Objects (Chapter 19)
Example
See Listing 19-1 for an example of values that can be used to set the face property
of a FONT element object. While you will notice visible changes to most
choices on the page, the font face selections may not change from one choice to
another; this all depends on the fonts that are installed on your PC.
size
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Example
See Listing 19-1 for an example of values that can be used to set the size property
of a FONT element object. Notice that incrementing or decrementing the size
property is applied only to the size assigned to the SIZE attribute of the element
(or the default, if none is specified) and not the current setting adjusted by script.
HR Element Object
Properties
align
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Example
Listing 19-2 contains a page that demonstrates the changes to the five HR element
object properties: align, color, noShade, size, and width. Along the way,
you can see an economical use of the setAttribute() method to do the work for
all of the property changes. This page loads successfully in all browsers, but the
SELECT lists make changes to the text only in IE4+ and NN6+ (because they treat
the element as an object).
An HR element (whose ID is myHR) is displayed with the browser default settings
(100% width, centered, and its “magic” color). Each list controls one of the five HR
object properties, and their NAME attributes are strategically assigned the names of
the properties (as you see in a moment). VALUE attributes for OPTION elements contain
strings that are to be assigned to the various properties. Each SELECT element
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