October 2, 2001 - Zooming In and Out of Elements

Yehuda Shiran October 2, 2001
Zooming In and Out of Elements
Tips: October 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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One way to easily control the size of text and graphics on a page is by changing the STYLE's zoom property. In the HEAD section of this tip, we have the following STYLE definition:

<STYLE TYPE="text/css">
#example1
{
  zoom:50%;
  width:100%;
  position:relative;
}
#example2
{
  zoom:100%;
  width:100%;
  position:relative;
}
#example3
{
  zoom:200%;
  width:100%;
  position:relative;
}
</STYLE>
The following three DIV elements demonstrate the effect of different zoom definitions:

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Here are the DIV definitions for the above examples:

<DIV ID="example1">
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</DIV>
<DIV ID="example2">
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</DIV>
<DIV ID="example3">
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</DIV>