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jQuery Text Resizer Using EM Values

Hi,

Need help with a little tweak to some jquery code found for my websites text resizer.
The below code works well but i found its changing my em values to px values when adding the style to the 'p' and 'h1' elements.

I'd like to increase and decrease the font size by 0.125em every time the A+ or A- is clicked with 1em (being the default size, 16 when converted to px), 0.625 being the smallest em value allowed and 1.25em being the biggest value.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

$(document).ready(function(){
	var defaultH1 = parseInt($('h1').css('font-size'));
	var defaultP = parseInt($('p').css('font-size'));
	var count = 0;
	var elements = ['h1', 'p'];
	$('.decreaseFont').click(function(){
		if(count >= -1){
			$(elements).each(function(key, val){
				$(val).css('font-size', parseInt($(val).css('font-size'))-2);
			});
			count--;
		};
	});
	$('.increaseFont').click(function(){
		if(count <= 1){
			$(elements).each(function(key, val){
				$(val).css('font-size', parseInt($(val).css('font-size'))+2);
			});
			count++;
		};
	});
});

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Gary

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JiveMedia

ASKER

Hi Gary,

Excellent thanks for that! Works a treat!

Another query...if i wanted jQuery to grab the css default value for a 'p' element already stated, ie. 0.875em and increase or decrease by 4 sizes either way, how would i do that.

I wanted to use this globally around the site but some div's might have smaller p sizes as default and doesn't work as expected.

Thanks!

Gary

You would have to grab the value outside any functions and use logic to decide what increase/decrease to apply and replace 0.125 with the var.

var basesize= parseInt($("p").css('font-size')*0.0625)

if (basesize=1){
variance=0.125}
else if(basesize=0.875){
variance=0.5 // I assume you mean 4 * 0.125
}

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Then in the function replace 0.125 with variance

JiveMedia

ASKER

Hi Gary,

Im having a little trouble getting this working. Any chance you could show me in a js fiddle or something similar?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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JiveMedia

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Excellent help and work by Gary, much appreciated.

JiveMedia

ASKER

Hi Gary,

One last question.

If i wanted to make the default size of the h1 (1.5em) and p (0.875em) different, but still increment them by the same amount of 0.125, what would i need to change in the js?

Thanks! :)

Gary

$(document).ready(function(){
	var count = 0;
	var elements = ['h1', 'p'];
	$('.decreaseFont').click(function(){
		if(count >= -1){
			$(elements).each(function(key, val){
				$(val).css('font-size', ((parseInt($(val).css('font-size'))/16)-0.125) +"em");
			});
			count--;
		};
	});
	$('.increaseFont').click(function(){
		if(count <= 1){
			$(elements).each(function(key, val){
				$(val).css('font-size', ((parseInt($(val).css('font-size'))/16)+.125) +"em");
			});
			count++;
		};
	});
});

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