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Re: Font size question - resolved

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 29, 2002 11:08AM

Kathleen,
Your stylesheet could be modified to take care of this issue. If you put
the font size to smallest in IE, you will notice that the two lines at the
bottom of the page, are marginally readable. They are larger than the text
in the middle of the page and in the left nav. The difference? The text in
the middle of the page and the nav is in table cells. Your css declaration:

P {font-size: .95em;}

is not doing anything to the text in table cells (you can make the text red
or really really large in the stylesheet to help debug this sort of thing).
You do have the same settings for <td> in the stylesheet, but as far as IE
is concerned, you don't have text in the <td>'s, just <p>'s. If you change
the td style declaration to:

td p {font-size: .95em}

you'll notice a difference. You'll need to take care of this for the <li>
tags as well.

Hope this helps,
AWK


On 10/29/02 12:36 PM, "Kathleen Anderson" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I wrote:
> I am going to do some experimenting with the font size; in the mean time,
> could you please verify for me that you have your browser text size set to
> 'medium'?
>
> He wrote:
> I've set the font size to medium. Actually, I apologize, I really should have
> put it on medium. And that page in question reads just fine. Thanks for your
> help.
>
>
>
> And thank you all (webaimers) for *your* help!
>
> Kathleen
>
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