IE8 font size problem

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Juc1

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Hi all,

The text in the bottom right of this page has a font size of 18px. In IE9 and other up to date browsers it displays correctly like this but in IE8 and other older browsers it displays incorrectly like this. I think that the 18px instruction is somehow being ignored and the text is instead displaying as something like 22px.

Any suggestions please for how to fix this?

thank you
 
ronaldroe

ronaldroe

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It looks like it's ignoring your font stack. When I disable the font stack in Chrome, it looks like the IE8 image you posted. That's causing it to switch to another font stack you have in the same CSS file that starts with Verdana. Further, it looks like you are declaring the same set of rules twice. If you delete line 59-85, I should think it would fix your issue.

EDIT: On a side note, I'd caution against using Calibri as your font. Only Windows Vista and 7 have it. You're leaving a lot of people out in the cold, and with Verdana looking so very different, you might want to rethink your font choices.
 
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Juc1

New Member
ronaldroe said:
It looks like it's ignoring your font stack. When I disable the font stack in Chrome, it looks like the IE8 image you posted. That's causing it to switch to another font stack you have in the same CSS file that starts with Verdana. Further, it looks like you are declaring the same set of rules twice. If you delete line 59-85, I should think it would fix your issue.

EDIT: On a side note, I'd caution against using Calibri as your font. Only Windows Vista and 7 have it. You're leaving a lot of people out in the cold, and with Verdana looking so very different, you might want to rethink your font choices.
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@ Ronald, thanks for your reply. I now suspect that this is a font issue rather than a browser issue - it could be that 18px in calibri stays neatly in the box but where a computer doesn't have calibri installed, it jumps to the next font, and 18px in Verdana does not fit in the box.

calibri is the client's request but maybe I can look at the second choice font and find something closer to calibri.

Thanks!
 
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