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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    Oh bugger. It's quite boring really.

    The text that's causing you grief is enclosed within <legend> tags. There's two bits of CSS styling in you stylesheet relating to these, but neither sets their colour. As a result browsers default to whatever they want. In IE's case that appears to be blue (no I don't know why either) whereas Firefox more sensibly applies inheritance rules and so uses the default color that you have set higher up the hierarchy.

    To solve this simply find
    LEGEND {
    font-weight: bold;
    padding: 0.3em;
    }
    and add
    color: #006633;
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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    kuroi, you are a star!!

    thanks so much

    p.s. I did try to change the size of the text using the #catagoryIcon code you supplied but no good - it didnt work


    (if you goto www.greatbaits.co.uk and click on CARP FISHING, it will then display some catagories starting with ACCESSORIES (its actually the TEXT UNDERNEATH the image saying Accessories)

    I only want to change it a little bigger!

    Thanks in advance!

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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    Quote Originally Posted by greatbaits1
    I did try to change the size of the text using the #catagoryIcon code you supplied but no good - it didnt work
    Leave it in anyway, it fixes a different small text problem that you have, and for the one you have just described ...
    .categoryListBoxContents {font-size:150%}
    It's probably worth sharing how I do this. I simply open do File > View Source and then do CTRL-F to search for the piece of text that is the wrong size. Once I've found it, I move back a little to find the ID or class of the div tag that contains it. Happy hunting.
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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    thanks again kuroi!!

    Done that, it works fine. The only thing is that it now makes the rest of the site slightly inconsistent.

    What I mean to say is the text is bigger on that page and looks great, but when you click into the checkout, it then reduces back to that small size again. I need to acutally increase ALL the small text through out the whole site.

    If this is going to cause me a nightmare, then I will just advertise some specs on my site to help people read it ha ha ha

    thanks for all your help
    Last edited by greatbaits1; 26 Jun 2006 at 03:29 PM.

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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    especially the area on the home page, at the top of the page, where it says HOME and LOG IN

    can I also make these a little bigger?

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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    Quote Originally Posted by greatbaits1
    especially the area on the home page, at the top of the page, where it says HOME and LOG IN

    can I also make these a little bigger?
    Of course you can. But this would seem to be an appropriate moment to remind you of the well kinown and rather homely "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime". My last post taught you how to fish, and they don't come much easier than this one, since the text you are asking about is the first to appear on the page. So I'll leave that one to you as an exercise.

    Instead, let's look at text sizes overall. The text that looks small on your site is scattered all over the place. You therefore have two choices, either imcrease text iszes overall on the site and then track down and reduce those that look too large. Or keep identifying those that look too small and increase them individually. I'm afraid that there is no easy way to just hit the ones you want.
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    Default Re: couple of minor things before going LIVE!

    You're right Kuroi, I still have a lot to learn with zen, but enjoying all the challenges it throws up now and again.

    I have no excuses really, I have tryed your excercise and it has helped a lot so am going to investigate further and will report back on my progress

    thanks for your wise words and advise!

    If it doesnt work then I can still trying selling specs!!

 

 

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