And, isn't it supposed to be the same size in DW and IE?
What could be the problem?

[q]Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
The text seems to be exactly the same size for me in IE7/FF2x, and in both
cases a bit larger than shown in DW.

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"eldife" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:g7c7rr$h6h$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> http://perso.wanadoo.es/l935684687/s...betterCSS.html
>
> The paragraph text is 85% in Design View in DW CS3, but in IExplorer 7
> seems
> to be 100%.
> My View | Text Size conf. in browser is "Medium".
> Is it correct "Medium" size? I mean, is it the default text size in IE?
> Do you see it the same size when in browser and later if you edit it in
> Design
> View in DW?
>

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On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:20:21 +0000 (UTC), "eldife"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>And, isn't it supposed to be the same size in DW and IE?
> What could be the problem?

Why does it really matter ? -

browsers rarely show exactly the same. Look at your site with IE6 & 7,
Firefox, Opera,
Safari on Windows or a Mac.

Trying to make it identical is like chasing your tail.........

Just test the site in a variety of browsers
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[q]Originally posted by: eldife
And, isn't it supposed to be the same size in DW and IE?
What could be the problem?
[/q]

It's probably never going to be the same unless you set a fixed text size in
pixels or something. By setting it to "85%", you have to ask "85% of what?".
For text that's resizable by the user using the text-size adjustments in the
browser, I'm not sure that there's any standard for the actual final size that
the browser uses for rendering the text. I don't think that DW has a way of
specifying this, so the default size that DW uses is probably not going to
match the default for the browser.

..oO(gordonwd)

>[q]Originally posted by: eldife
> And, isn't it supposed to be the same size in DW and IE?
> What could be the problem?
> [/q]
>
> It's probably never going to be the same unless you set a fixed text size in
>pixels or something.

Even then it doesn't have to appear the same across different browsers.
There are a lot of things the author can't control.

>By setting it to "85%", you have to ask "85% of what?".

85% of the user's preferred font size.

But 85% is definitely too small for normal text, it should be around
95-100%, not less. If it appears too big then, it usually just means
that you've used an inappropriate font like Verdana for example.

Micha