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From: Harlan Messinger on 13 Apr 2008 08:10
Eric B. Bednarz wrote:
> Steve <tinker123(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have a div with two - three paragrahs in it.
>
> No, you have a problem that you do not understand, and nobody will be
> able to properly explain it to you until you reveal it in context (the
> latter being a resource served from a http server).
>
>
> Here's a general debugging hint: if you were able to identify
> problematic areas in your code, you would know the solution already.
>
>
Oh, come on, that's not true. People often submit code snippets that
contain the error causing the problem. Been there, done that. The
important point to make is that if they don't know *what* it is, they
shouldn't *assume* they know *where* it is.
From: GTalbot on 14 Apr 2008 04:04
On 12 avr, 16:50, Steve <tinker...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a div with two - three paragrahs in it. Each paragraph has
> its own inline style tag with its own font size setting. When I set
> the last paragraph's font size the font sizes for ALL of the
> paragraphs change.
>
> Why?
>
> How can I stop it?
>
> I.E>
>
> <div>
> <P style = "font-size:18px;">
> blah blah blah....
> </P>
>
> <P style = "font-size:12px;">
> yada yada yada......
> </P>
>
> <P style = "font-size:8px;">
> yak yak yak...
> </P>
>
> </div>

Steve,

1- post an URL where you see this phenomenon
2- in which browser does this font size increase happens? Firefox
2.0.0.13?
3- In your Firefox 2.0.0.13, what is your setting for the minimum font-
size?
Tools/Options/Content tab/Font Advanced button/

Also, like others told you, I strongly recommend that you stay away
from absolute font-size for webpages and to use instead relative font-
size like %tage:

The Wrong Size Fonts
Or why not to over-ride the reader's font size
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html

"
Units: avoid absolute length units for screen display
Do not specify the font-size in pt, or other absolute length units for
screen stylesheets. They render inconsistently across platforms and
can't be resized by the User Agent (e.g browser). Keep the usage of
such units for styling on media with fixed and known physical
properties (e.g print).
Use relative length units such as percent (...)"
W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters
Care with Font-size
Units: avoid absolute length units for screen display
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

"For this year's list of worst design mistakes, (...) I asked readers
of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the
most irritating. (...) Bad fonts won the vote by a landslide, getting
almost twice as many votes as the #2 mistake. About two-thirds of the
voters complained about small font sizes or frozen font sizes;"
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 by Jakob Nielsen
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html


" Our site mixes and matches text sizes on the page."
Does Your Web Site Suck?
Checklist 1: 149 Ways to Kill Your Web Site
Text and links
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/does-my-web-site-suck/does-my-web-site-suck-checklist-part-one.html


Regards, Gérard
--
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http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/MSIE7Bugs/
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