Sorry, my bad, I guess I didn't dig deep enough. I thought this forum was support. Didn't mean to cause a fuss if I did. Just trying to find an anwser. Thanks, I go file a "support ticket"

Joel

Joel,

The forums are one way to get support. The rule of thumb is if their appears to be a problem with the software put in a support ticket. However, if you just have general questions about any of the topics listed in the forum feel free to pick our brains.

Different browsers have different default font sizes - and often users have their own defaults set too - the old <font size=2> will give you the default sized text for that browser scaled to the second smallest size - so yes - it quite likely will look different on different browsers...

try pressing <ctrl><0> (control zero) to reset the zoom level on your browser...
<ctrl><+> to zoom in and <ctrl><-> (minus) to zoom out....

(not sure that works on ALL systems but does work on a few)

Fe Pixie,

The problem is not things displaying in browsers differently or browser zoom levels. All the browsers I have installed (IE, Firefox, safari, chrome) All display this code exactly the same in regards to font size and placement in the table. The problem is the "preview" (or Visual WYSIWYG) doesn't look like ANY of them. This is not a zoom problem. Fixed size graphic elements (ie images, etc) all display exactly the same in "preview" and all browsers. the only difference is the size of the fonts displayed in "preview", they are over twice as big. so if the physical screen size of text displayed using <font size=2> is the same in all my browsers (all set to default and 100% zoom) and way to big in "preview" it must be because the "preview" browser engine uses a different default size or default zoom level, neither of which we seemlingly have the ability to control ?? do we ??.

I compiling stuff for a support ticket with code and screen capture pics.

thanks

Joel

preview? - or visual editor?...

switching between the does weird things sometime i hear - is it anything to do with that?

no I don't think so. While I would love to be able to switch between edit modes, from what I've gleened from this board, switching between modes is not a support method of operation I tried it and it sometimes double and tripples some lines of code but thats anyway that off point. I just mentioned the visual editor because I tried that method and the font size thing is there also. But then since they are using the same display engine (I've heard), I would expect that. Thanks for the thought.

Joel

Joel, if you use inline styles instead of font tags (which are so deprecated that they are almost not-supported) your fonts should stay the same size in preview and in every browser you care to throw the page at. As has been suggested, depending on the installed version of Internet Explorer, your preview is bound to look different if using an ambiguous setting like font size="2". You could try it, just to see.

So, instead of something like:

<font size="2" color="black"> etc. you could instead use

<p (or div or span) style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">text here</p>

If the preview looks right, then you've found a workaround. if not, something else is messing up the preview.

My 2 cents

Dave
davethompson.co.nz

Joel, you can attach a file (image or zip) to the posts here. Why don't you do that, so that we may be able to see the problem? A screen shot of what you see in the Editor and in a browser may perhaps explain something.