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Uniform Font Sizes Across Different Browsers? A Pipe-Dream?

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#1: Jun 5 '08
Simple question:

Can anyone suggest the "best" way to size fonts using css that will allow for consistent size between I.E. and Firefox? And Safari too, I suppose.

Some of the fonts on my site look so much bigger in IE than they do in Firefox. Yet I can go to other websites on IE and Firefox and see fonts looking the same, so it can't be my browser configurations.

What gives?
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#2: Jun 6 '08

re: Uniform Font Sizes Across Different Browsers? A Pipe-Dream?


There is a View->Text size in browsers. Make sure all your browsers have normal settings.

If not, then show some test page where the problem could be scene.
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#3: Jun 8 '08

re: Uniform Font Sizes Across Different Browsers? A Pipe-Dream?


The problem, as always, is with IE. IE does not size fonts properly. How are you sizing your text? Try adding this to your css:
body{font-size:100%}
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