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    Default Font size difference from IE to FF

    Hello, i have some problems adjusting the font size of the product description. Here is an example:
    http://lemy.co.uk/oakley-conduct-sun...ent-p-677.html
    In Firefox3 the font size is smaller than in IE8
    And that's only 1 of my problems. If i press the compatibility view in IE8, the whole page body shifts to the right with about 10-15px.
    Can anyone help me solve these riddles?

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    Default Re: Font size difference from IE to FF

    I'm not sure how you are sizing your fonts in your css, but I've found IE and Fire fox do not see the sizes 'x-small' and 'small' etc as same thing, I use size in 'em' or 'px' and find it more precise

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    Default Re: Font size difference from IE to FF

    Quote Originally Posted by perfect concepts View Post
    I'm not sure how you are sizing your fonts in your css, but I've found IE and Fire fox do not see the sizes 'x-small' and 'small' etc as same thing, I use size in 'em' or 'px' and find it more precise
    Thanks for that, i am using FCK editor to list my products and i don't know how to fix this. Would it be possible perhaps to set them from the stylesheet, like to assign for small, smaller, large, etc a fixed font size in px or em?

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    Default Re: Font size difference from IE to FF

    Yes, use the stylesheet. DO NOT embed style information in the things you edit in admin. (Well, perhaps I shouldn't be that emphatic. Nothing will be harmed, but it's entirely unnecessary.)

    If you really need to add stylable elements within your product info, then add DIVs or SPANs or other HTML elements with class names, then style those in the stylesheet. Makes it a heck of a lot easier to maintain in the future.

    Rob

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    Default Re: Font size difference from IE to FF

    Quote Originally Posted by rstevenson View Post
    Yes, use the stylesheet. DO NOT embed style information in the things you edit in admin. (Well, perhaps I shouldn't be that emphatic. Nothing will be harmed, but it's entirely unnecessary.)

    If you really need to add stylable elements within your product info, then add DIVs or SPANs or other HTML elements with class names, then style those in the stylesheet. Makes it a heck of a lot easier to maintain in the future.

    Rob
    Thanks Rob, the problem is that i made a bit of a mess: i listed some of my products with small, some with smaller and some normal. Is there any way of making those font sizes look the same from the stylesheet?
    Anyway that's my second priority. The first one is the display on older browsers. I checked it on this free website:
    http://browsershots.org/http://lemy.co.uk/
    and the whole center column shifts to the right. I suspect this might be from the css flyout header 1.5 that i installed not in the header, but in the main page, but i triple checked my installation and the csshover+htaccess are all as they should be. I have posted on the support forum for that mod, but no answer, i'm lost as to how to fix this

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    Default Re: Font size difference from IE to FF

    Your best bet is to remove those size declarations.

    Rob

 

 

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