Shrink a Calendar - asp.net

I have a calendar object on my ASPX page, and all works well, until my user asked for it to be smaller.
I tried setting the hieght and width. but it wouldn't reduce the calendar from the default size, it would however, increase the size if I made them bigger than the default. Am I just stuck with the default size being the smallest it gets?
Thanks

Another answer 5 minutes after I ask...always the way.
The problem of shinking is all in the font size. It won't shrink the font automatically to fit a smaller calendar. So I just used CSS to do so:
font:12px arial,tahoma,sans-serif;
and it would finally shrink down.

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Css elements dependent on screen size

I have had a problem with css for a couple of days and I found a temporary solution, however, I am not sure if it is good. I am writing a phone app and am using 'vh' and 'vw' as screen measurements (so the style is okay according to different screen sizes). The problem I am facing comes when I click on an input and the keyboard pops up. Then the screen size decreases, and all the elements that I have with bottom: 10vh ( or any number of vh ), get pushed down, because the bottom decreases to the current screen size. I solved this by using px instead of vh, since it is independent of the screen size, but could cause problems (because users can use different screen sizes, so the style would look different on different phones). So both methods have cons. What is a good solution to this? Thanks.
Sometimes it isn't worthy to use 'vh' or 'vw'. as an example when you rotate your gadget also some styles get corrupted. when you use that take care of any size in width or height.
Use JQuery method,
$( window ).resize(function() {
//function call which changes the sizes according to window.width() and window.height()
});
It should do the job

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Take these two websites for example.. twitter and amazon.
Notice when you change the height of the viewport nothing actually changes? Just the amount you can and can't see.
How is this achieved?

Auto resize two images in a div when browser width changes

I have looked at many different peoples answers to this problem but they only account for one image.
I am having a problem with the the two images that i have placed in my header, when i resize my browser i want them to scale down with it so that they dont displace my whole site.
i have it hosted in dropbox so you can see what my problem is: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13722201/Dorset%20Designs/home.html
also another problem im having is un attaching the footer from the bottom of the screen and putting it below the body so users have to scroll down.
p.s I attached the footer to the bottom many months ago and I forgot how to undo it.
SORRY FOR THE TERRIBLY MESSY CODE
thanks in advance
Arran, 16
Here's how I'd do it. First, style each image using CSS to have width:100% and height:auto. This makes them respond to the sizes of their containers. Lose those width and height attributes from the img tag - I'm not even sure if those are valid anymore.
Now here's where the clever part comes. Your images are 550px and 298px wide, which is roughly a 65%:35% ratio. When the header is at its most narrow point before breaking, it's about as wide as the sum of the two. So give the big image's container max-width:65%, and the small image's container div max-width:35%.
This way, when the browser window is smaller, the images scale down correspondingly - and don't become larger than they need to be when the window is wide. I tried it out on your page, and I think it worked - see if it works for you. :)

Best way to dynamically change the resolution of an HTML5 video

What is the best way to dynamically change the width and height of an HTML5 video within a webpage? The kind of behaviour I'm referring to is the same thing in the intro video of http://flipboard.com/
When the window is resized, the video still takes up 100% of the viewable size (without scrolling). I noticed that the video gets resized to a certain degree, but stops resizing and gets cropped at some point.
What is the best way to get the same behaviour? I want to have a video take up the entire viewable area of the browser without scroll bars. This is only on a desktop/laptop, I am not considering any mobile devices ATM.
What I have in mind right now is to dynamically change the width/height properties of the video to fit the viewable area using javascript, but also set a minimum size such that the video doesn't get distorted. The video can be placed in a container that is always centered, so if the browser gets to a size that is too small, it effectively gets cropped. I'm not sure if this is too long-winded and if there is an easier way.
Thank you.
It looks like they have the css properties of height and width set to 100%. If you use an element inspector like the one built into chrome or firebug for Firefox, you should be able to see exactly how they structured the html/css for the video element as well as the div its nested in. Then, as you said, also set a min-width/min-height property.
Unless I'm misreading your question, it should be that simple. Hope this helps!
you could do it with "Responsive CSS", there are some ways to do that,
you could set the viewport, max-width, min-width, etc.
This link have a nice explanation how to do that : http://kyleschaeffer.com/best-practices/responsive-layouts-using-css-media-queries/

Why do dpi settings over 96 screw up my site?

I noticed that when the dpi is set high than 96 to like 120 my site gets messed up using either Firefox or IE7. The CSS basically breaks. Anyone know how to fix this?
Link to web-site
Thanks
The site uses a fixed-size layout, but mixes the units px and pt. When changing the dpi of your screen, the relative size of these units changes, ie the site is broken by design.
What you should do:
don't use pt for screen layouts - pt is for printing only
read up on liquid layouts and the relative unit em
There's not really a fix that can prevent anything happening if a user has adjusted their Windows DPI setting. Altering Windows to 'large fonts' mode, or setting it to a DPI setting other than the default, affects all layout in IE.
However, this should never cause a site to massively break. A few things shall be slightly misaligned, perhaps, due to rounding of values.
The site you've pointed to indeed does break quite massively when the font size is changed - for instance, change the default font in the browser (or set Firefox to "Zoom Text Only"). Text from the buttons completely leaves the buttons and starts hovering elsewhere.
It looks like the main cause of this, at least with the buttons across the top, is that the whole row of buttons is single background image and the text inside them are floated elements which match up with the background image only at a given font size - any adjustment to their size and position and they become out of whack with their background.
When designing, always change the zoom setting (in IE7 and Firefox) and the font size (eg in Firefox using "Zoom Text Only") and make sure that those things that do change in size, don't break the site. In some conditions, things specified in "pt" will scale while things specified in "px" won't.
How you could fix it
It's clear that you've designed everything to be a certain size in pixels, including the header and all the buttons/tabs. If you want to do this, declare the header DIV to be position: relative, and position the H1, H2, and UL inside it absolutely, using pixel values (relative to the containing div). Remove the margins, padding etc from the DIV to simplify. Specify widths, heights and top margins of the LI elements using pixels.
What I would do
Normally, I would build things like this to be flexible, so that if for some reason a person had really big fonts enabled on their browser, it would stretch nicely to handle it. That isn't really possible with your background images, because they are build especially for one given size only. So I'd have a repeatable background on the header, and I'd do each background for each button separately. Obviously, this is going to be more work.

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