condensed font in css...??

I tryed to get condenced font in css but it somehow does not work in ie and ff

take a look at the bottom of this page:

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/fonts.html

in ie and in ff and in opera it all looks the same so no stretch or shrinking
I need a condensed font
is there a way to get this to work in css or attach a font with it?

greets dimmy

Dimmy,

Are you just looking to use a smaller font size or to reduce the letter spacing, or a combination of both

Different browsers work in different ways and whilst you could use a condensed font it may not be a font that every visitor has installed. Therefore its ofter easier to apply the CSS rules to your tag, div or create .class using font-size: 1em;. You can also change the spacing between letters with letter-spacing: .1em; but it is quite hard to get this looking nice and often the default browser settings are best for letter spacing in my experience.

As in this link above css should have the "font-stretch: ultra-condensed " option for fonts so when you take a standard arial font it wil render the carachters more narrow not the spacing or the size.
like this:
same font same size but 50% condensed

Here whatyour saying,

However until such options are standard and supported by all popular browsers I think your options will remain limited to ensure everyone can read the text.

I just stick to popular fonts and make them smaller using the font-size and sometimes apply word or letter spacing. If its upper case "small-caps" is quite widely supported. But unless someone tells me otherwise I really don’t thing there is any realistic alternative just yet.(unless is a small line of text where image replacement techniques could be used)

Its weard that w3.org stats it as an valid css option but no browser supports it and I can not find any article that says that no browser supports it or what brouwser does.

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/fonts.html

Dimmy

go here

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

Scroll down to font-stretch, your will see its hardly supported

Jup I see...

its a shame thanks for the info.