January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
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Scaling Shapes
You may also have noticed that you can set the size for shapes with the style attribute, as in this case, where I'm setting the size of the bounding rectangle of an oval:
<HTML xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Using Vector Markup Language
</TITLE>
<STYLE>
v\:* {behavior: url(#default#VML);}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<H1>
VML Ovals
</H1>
<v:oval style='width:200pt;height:100pt'
fillcolor="blue" />
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>
To scale a shape, all you have to do is change the width and height as specified with the style attribute. For example, to double the oval's size in both dimensions, I could assign style a value of "width:400pt;height:200pt".