I'm trying to align a sans-serif headline precisely with menu elements in other div-Elements, so basically this:
Header
A B C
where A is aligned to the left end of the Header and C to the right end. I use float to distribute the -Elements and I compute the font-size to fit the header into the div width. The problem is that I use a sans-serif font. The problem is demonstrated in a fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/ksuTQ/2/
<div id="Hideheader" class="Header" style="position: absolute;font-size:40pt;padding:0px;visibility: hidden;width:auto;height:auto;">HEADER</div>
<div id="header" class="Header">HEADER</div>
<div id="menubar" class="menubar">
<div class="menubutton_left"><a href="#" id="WorkButton">A</a>
</div>
<div class="menubutton_middle"><a href="#" id="AboutButton">B</a>
</div>
<div class="menubutton_right"><a href="#" id="ContactButton">C</a>
</div> <span class="stretch"></span>
</div>
jscript
resizeHead("#Hideheader", "#header");
function resizeHead(p1, p2) {
var fontsize = parseFloat($(p1).css("font-size"));
var spacing = parseFloat($(p1).css("letter-spacing"));
var initWidth = $(p1).width();
initWidth = initWidth - spacing;
var outWidth = $(p2).width();
var s = outWidth / initWidth;
s = fontsize * s;
$(p2).css({
"font-size": s
});
}
CSS
div.Header {
font-family:sans-serif;
text-align:justify;
white-space: nowrap;
}
div.menubar {
text-align: justify;
-ms-text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
text-justify: distribute-all-lines;
margin-bottom: 0px;
position: relative;
}
div.menubutton_left, div.menubutton_middle, div.menubutton_right {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
zoom: 1;
width:60px;
}
div.menubutton_left {
}
div.menubutton_middle {
text-align: center;
}
div.menubutton_right {
text-align: right;
}
.stretch {
border: 2px dashed #444;
width: 100%;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0
}
How do I align the beginning of the A with the H of the header for a sans-serif font?