That it isn't a bug with the software, but with how you added text to your page. See this article at http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … -designer/ and it will walk you through how to correct this.

Thanks for the quick reply Scott.

I don't think the problem has to do with having a text box for each paragraph. Each one of the links on the right of my page are in their own separate text box. All the text boxes are neatly aligned on a vertical guide to the right, and all text is right justified. The problem now also happens in Firefox, but it doesn't happen on another PC I've been using lately. Text also seems to go down vertically too much, as if the font size is too big and needs more lines (although I think I could manage with this problem).

I've actually stumbled upon what might be causing the problem. In the PC where the text isn't aligned, Window's font size is set to 115% (this is in Windows 7). That would explain why the fonts seemed bigger. What's strange is that I haven't noticed this problem in other sites (except for sites I have seen here made in VSD). Maybe other sites usually override Window's font size setting?

So, is there anything I can do about this?

Vasco --

On my PC your right-justified text looks OK when using the default settings in IE 8 or Firefox 3.6.13 under Windows XP. However, your symptoms can be induced with the following settings, which may explain why your site looked different on another PC.

1. In Windows "Settings\Control panel\Display\Settings\Advanced", if I set the DPI setting to something larger than Normal-100% (say 120%) and then reboot, your right-justified text looks ragged in either IE 8 or Firefox. In IE 8 I can fix this by checking "Tools\Compatibility". This can be made permanent by checking "Tools\Compatibility view settings\Display all websites in compatibility view". (You may also see a compatibility button that looks like a torn sheet of paper at the top of IE just to the left of the green refresh arrows.) I don't know of any such work-around for Firefox.

See comments on the following page (IE8: Compatibility View Settings - set for all sites):
http://www.craigbailey.net/ie8-compatib … all-sites/

Here, Craig Bailey suggests the following fix:

"Yes, you just need to add the following line into the head section of your html:
[meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /]
but replace ?[' with '< ' and ']? with ?>?
Unfortunately this comment was deleting the code line if I had the angle tags included."

Please let me know if it works or if modifications are needed.

The following page (Introducing Compatibility View) is also interesting:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008 … -view.aspx

The following comment may be relevant:

"IE8b2 passes Acid 2 (http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top). Default padding/margins for elements is not defined in the CSS spec, and are assigned by browser manufacturers - this may account for differences you are seeing."

2. Assuming that the DPI is normal (96 dpi) then your ragged text can still occur if you zoom in ("View\Zoom") with either browser.

Is it possible to right-justify your text within a transparent table?

Don Culp

Vasco --

I have played with your html. The problem seems to be that all of the text at the right of the screen is left aligned. Then the location of the right ends of the text depends on the display settings (zoom and dpi) and font size. You can see this if you decrease this font size from 8 to 6; in this case the right text ends become even more ragged. However, if you set the text alignment to right @ 72px, then everything remains correctly right justified regardless of the display settings or the font size.

Don Culp

Wow thanks for the detailed response!

I was just about to try your suggestion and saw your last post. I find it very strange that the text on the right is left-aligned, in VSD they are all right-aligned! But I think I'll try to lock the font size anyway, since it tends to create other problems (for example, in the "About" section of my site, the text goes too far down). I'll let you know how it went.

Well I tried the [meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /] fix, and it solved the misaligned text problem, which is great! But, it doesn't seem to actually keep the fonts at the same size, I think they are still scaled, so the problem of the text going too far down is still there. I'll try to investigate this further.