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Thread ID: 65071 2006-01-06 09:41:00 Webpage text display inconsistancies FoxyMX (5) Press F1
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418737 2006-01-06 09:41:00 The first letter on this page (www.caballine.orcon.net.nz) is supposed to be larger than the rest of the text but Internet Explorer does not display it properly like Opera and Firefox does.

Can anyone tell me why and how I can fix it please? 		FoxyMX (5)
418738 2006-01-06 09:44:00 Yes big T for me with ff.

But looks like thicker than usual quotation marks with IE.

Maybe the reverse of the usual, someones written something to display in alt browsers but not IE. 		mark c (247)
418739 2006-01-06 09:52:00 Bah! If they're still using IE, LET THEM SUFFER!
Or you could use basic HTML which IE seem to only understand :rolleyes: 		bob_doe_nz (92)
418740 2006-01-06 10:00:00 Foxy are you using IE for MAC if so theres a flaw with the way it renders CSS elements.
if not instead of
font-size: 200%;

try

font-size: x-large;

also read this page (www.htmlhelp.com)
it metions ie and your problem
btw
Im experamenting with css image mapping its easier that the tradional image map method 		beama (111)
418741 2006-01-06 10:05:00 Foxy are you using IE for MAC if so theres a flaw with the way it renders CSS elements.
if not instead of
font-size: 200%;

try

font-size: x-large;

also read this page (www.htmlhelp.com)
it metions ie and your problem
btw
Im experamenting with css image mapping its easier that the tradional image map method

Wash you mouth out, Susan would never use a Mac.

Anyway it is showing a big T on a Mac version of IE also Firefox and Safari 		Safari (3993)
418742 2006-01-06 10:14:00 LOL :D

Safari, I wouldn't be such a snob as to never use a Mac if it suited my purpose and budget, whatever gave you that idea? ;)

Thanks beama but IE still won't display the big T even after changing to font-size: x-large; BUT I took out the line height and width code and now IE will display the large T .

Unfortunately it now drops it below the rest of the text instead of the letters lining up .

Out of the frying pan and into the fire . :rolleyes:

I am using Windows by the way . 		FoxyMX (5)
418743 2006-01-06 10:22:00 begs Safari for forgiveness
Its just thats what a certain web site stated (apple.com, I think. Dont hurt me, Im teasing)

Yes I tested with Mozila, Firefox and IE, Guess want, IE was the only one that did it, so I raided her css file (looked fine).

I found also with css testing that IE didnt always play nice with css so I had too find methods that were cross platform ( what ever happened to browser standards set by w3) and that caused a lot of googling and expermentation. 		beama (111)
418744 2006-01-06 10:45:00 silvertech.co.nz Rob99 (151)
418745 2006-01-06 19:26:00 That's it!! Thanks Rob . :thumbs:

I had actually tried the . firstletter trick but my mistake was to list it as p . firstletter, which of course made the first letter of ALL paragraphs be large . :rolleyes:


While I'm at it, I'm having trouble getting horizontal rules to be centered in the middle of the page without adding "align="center" . Internet Explorer (darn stupid browser!! :mad: ) won't center them otherwise, even if align: center is in the CSS sheet . The code in the HTML file has to be this for IE to center them:

<HR width="45%" align="center" noshade />

It won't even center the HR in a centered DIV or P . Any ideas or do I have to have the above code each time? 		FoxyMX (5)
418746 2006-01-06 22:53:00 Thanks Rob, That’s a cool trick you did there :) stu161204 (123)
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