Using IE 7 & 8, I need to supply buttons on a page to allow the user to zoom in or out (I know they could simply user the browser to do this but......... it’s a long story!!) Experimenting with ways to achieve this, I am having difficulty achieving the same level of functionality when programmatically applying a zoom as appears available using the browser menu. On the very basic webpage below, if I use ctrl (+/-) to zoom the page, the page content is resized correctly and everything if fine; However, if I apply a zoom level by setting the .style.zoom property programmatically when pressing the "Go" button, the zoom occurs but the contained paragraph is not resized meaning that the text is now off the page and, despite setting the overflow property to "auto" no scrollbar is present. Am I omitting a step somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated!! <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http/www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http/www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <!-- DW6 --> <head> <!-- Copyright 2005 Macromedia, Inc. All rights reserved. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> <script> function zoomIE() { var content = document.getElementById("content"); document.body.style.zoom = "1.2"; document.body.style.overflow = "auto"; content.style.overflow = "auto"; } </script> </head> <div id="content"> <h2 id="pageName">Zoom</h2> <input name="goButton" type="button" value="go" onclick="zoomIE();" /> <h3>Feature Title </h3> <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec molestie. Sed aliquam sem ut arcu. Phasellus sollicitudin. Vestibulum condimentum facilisis nulla. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nulla nonummy. Cras quis libero. Cras venenatis. Aliquam posuere lobortis pede. Nullam fringilla urna id leo. Praesent aliquet pretium erat. Praesent non odio. Pellentesque a magna a mauris vulputate lacinia. Aenean viverra. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Aliquam lacus. Mauris magna eros, semper a, tempor et, rutrum et, tortor. </p> </div> </div> <br /> </body> </html>
Developer-specific resources include: MSDN IE Development Forum (post such questions here instead) http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/iewebdevelopment/threads Tip: When posting in Developer forums, always include a link to your web site or test pages in your first post. IE Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx Learn IE8 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740473.aspx HTML and DHTML Overviews and Tutorials http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537623.aspx and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740476.aspx Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer (free, stand-alone visual debugging tool for IE6, IE7, and IE http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=8e6ac106-525d-45d0-84db-dccff3fae677 Expression Web SuperPreview Release Notes http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Web_SuperPreviewReleaseNotes.aspx Validators: http://validator.w3.org/ http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ Jon Brown wrote: > Using IE 7 & 8, I need to supply buttons on a page to allow the user to > zoom > in or out (I know they could simply user the browser to do this > but......... > it’s a long story!!) Experimenting with ways to achieve this, I am having > difficulty achieving the same level of functionality when programmatically > applying a zoom as appears available using the browser menu. > On the very basic webpage below, if I use ctrl (+/-) to zoom the page, the > page content is resized correctly and everything if fine; However, if I > apply a zoom level by setting the .style.zoom property programmatically > when > pressing the "Go" button, the zoom occurs but the contained paragraph is > not > resized meaning that the text is now off the page and, despite setting the > overflow property to "auto" no scrollbar is present. > Am I omitting a step somewhere? Any help would be much appreciated!! <SNIP>