Text size has gone screwey! Tell me why and win an e-biscuit

PsychomIKE · 19 Feb 2009 at 08:53

Hello, I'm having a problem with our company's website as it appears that in the last day or 2 the font size in Firefox and Chrome has suddenly become massive! IE still seems to be fine though :confused:

Here's the CSS, if anyone can spot an obvious mistake I will gladly hand over an e-biscuit!

Code:

/* GENERAL STYLES */
/* Rich text editor styling start */
#holderBody {
background: #eee;
}

#holder {
background: #a5a281;
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 15px;
margin: 15px;
text-align: left;
width: 500px;
}
#holder a {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
/* Rich text editor styling end */

body {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial;
	font-size: 0.75em;
	background-image: url(/gfx/bg.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	margin: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	line-height: 130%;
	color: #414141;
	font-size: 8pt;
}
legend {
	color: #000;
} 
p {
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 0px;
    margin-right: 0px;
    line-height: 140%;
}
a {
	color: #414141;
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	color: #393939;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
img {
	border: 0px;
}
input {
	border: 1px solid #9f9f9f;
	font-size: 9pt;
}
.menu {
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	height: 20px;
}
.menutd {
	padding: 2px 10px;
}
.menutext {
	font-family: Arial;
	color: #424242;
	font-size: 7pt;
        text-transform: uppercase;
}
.undermeny {
	background-image: url(/gfx/undermenybg.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	height: 16px;
}
.submenu {
	background-color: #e8e8e8;
	position: relative;
	top: 4px;
}
.submenutext {
	padding: 2px 5px;
	font-size: 8pt;
	font-family: Arial;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #414141;
}
.main {
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
}
.content {
/*	background-image: url(/gfx/contentbg.jpg); */
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	height: 400px;
	padding: 2px 5px;
        color: #333333;
       font-size: 8pt;
       line-height: 140%;
       margin-left: 0px;
       margin-right: 0px;
}
.pagecontent {
	color: #414141;
}
.pagecontent img {
	border: 1px solid white;
	margin: 5px 2px;
}
.pagecontent a {
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.pagecontent legend {
	color: #333;
}
.tabaktiv {
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}
.tabaktivL {
	background-image: url(/gfx/tab_aktiv_l.jpg);
	width: 5px;
	height: 16px;
}
.tabaktivR {
	background-image: url(/gfx/tab_aktiv_r.jpg);
	width: 5px;
	height: 16px;
}
.tabaktivlink {
	color: #414141;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}
.tabinaktiv {
	background-image: url(/gfx/tab_inaktiv_bg.jpg);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}
.tabinaktivL {
	background-image: url(/gfx/tab_inaktiv_l.jpg);
	width: 5px;
	height: 16px;
}
.tabinaktivR {
	background-image: url(/gfx/tab_inaktiv_r.jpg);
	width: 5px;
	height: 16px;
}

.tabinaktivlink {
	color: white;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}
.highlights {
	color: white;
	font-size: 8pt;
	padding: 10px 7px;
	line-height: 1.1;
}
.highlights a {
	color: white;
}
.highlights p {
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}

.level2{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.level3{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.level4{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.level5{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.level6{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.level7{
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 7pt;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding: 2px 5px 2px 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #e8e8e8;
}
.image {
	border: 1px solid white;
	margin: 5px 2px;
}
.Overskrift {
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 16pt;
	color: #333333;    
	line-height: 130%;
       margin-left: 0px;
       margin-right: 0px;
}
.Uthevet {
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 12pt;
	color: #201e18;    
	line-height: 130%;
}
.Normal {
	font-family: Arial;
	font-size: 9pt;
	color: black;
	line-height: 130%;
}

.topmenuDropDown {
	width: 135px;
	position: absolute;
	z-index: 998;
	border: 1px solid #fff;
	background-color: #a4a280;
	padding: 10px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	mozopacity: 0.9;
	opacity: 0.9;
	filter: ALPHA(opacity=90);
	font-size: 0.85em;
	visibility: hidden;
	line-height: 1;
}
.topmenuDropDown a {
	color: #fff;
	display: block;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}
.topmenuDropDown a:hover {
	color: #ddd;
}
.topContentImage {
	width: 848px; 
}
.bottomContentImage {
	height: 33px; 
	width: 100%;
}

.panorama {
	left: 0px; 
	top: 0px; 
	z-index: 1;
	overflow: hidden;
	border: 1px solid #fff;
}
.panorama img {
	border: none;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}


/* EDITOR PROPERTIES */
h1 {
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 1.8em;
color: #414141;    
line-height: 130%;
margin-bottom: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
margin-top: 2px;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-left: 0px;


}

h2 {
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 1.4em;
color: #414141;   
line-height: 130%;
margin-bottom: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
}

R2 {
font-size: 75%;
}

h3 {
font-family: Verdana, Arial;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 1em;
color: #414141;    
line-height: 130%;
margin-bottom: 2px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 2px;
padding-top: 2px;
padding-left: 0px;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

imageborder {
border: 1px solid white;
margin: 5px 2px;
}

h5 {
border: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

Ideas?

Tripnologist · 19 Feb 2009 at 10:49

At a quick guess, I would say the problem might revolve around having two separate font sizes specified for your body tag. I would assume that IE is using one of the body font sizes and chrome/ff are using the other.

Once again, this is just a quick guess so I could be completely off base here.

My advice would be to read up on using ems for font size.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss/

PsychomIKE · 19 Feb 2009 at 11:50

Thanks for the link.

I've tried removing one of those font size comments but to no avail. What's strange is that we added some css a week ago and the font size changed sometime after that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't immediately. Here's the new code added

Code:

.umbMailFormLabel {
	float: right;
	width: 23em;
}

#contactForm input {
	width: 15em;
}
#contactForm textarea {
	width: 15em;
	height: 8em;
}

UmbMail refers to our content mechanic; Umbraco.

Not sure I can put our link on here but if anyone is kind enough to try helping further I can PM it through.

Thanks guys

Tripnologist · 19 Feb 2009 at 11:59

I don't see why you can't post a link on here, most everyone does as it's just for help.

You can send it to the email addy in my trust though if you would like.

suarve · 19 Feb 2009 at 12:05

PsychomIKE said:
Thanks for the link.

I've tried removing one of those font size comments but to no avail. What's strange is that we added some css a week ago and the font size changed sometime after that, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't immediately. Here's the new code added

Code:

UmbMail refers to our content mechanic; Umbraco.

Not sure I can put our link on here but if anyone is kind enough to try helping further I can PM it through.

Thanks guys

why not?

PsychomIKE · 19 Feb 2009 at 12:10

Well I wasn't sure on the rules

http://www.blomaerofilms.com - here you go, appreciate you looking, ta.

Tripnologist · 19 Feb 2009 at 12:19

Sort out your doctype and it should be fine. (tested locally)

PsychomIKE · 19 Feb 2009 at 12:27

Ahh, right you are. Will get that sorted, thank you!

Tripnologist · 19 Feb 2009 at 12:35

No problem.