Font changes per page

[Guest]

I am running Internet Explorer 6.0 and my home page is the font and size I
like but ever time I go to another page the font and size is of the page
changes with every website I visit. Sometimes the font is so small I can not
see the text and the page does not take up the whole page.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

THank you, Kathy

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Kathy wrote on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:38:29 -0800:

I am running Internet Explorer 6.0 and my home page is the font and size I
like but ever time I go to another page the font and size is of the page
changes with every website I visit. Sometimes the font is so small I can
not see the text and the page does not take up the whole page.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

Can you post some URLs for example sites?

Most likely the problem is that the sites are using styles and tables to fix
the page sizes and font sizes. Many sites will fix the page with to
something common like 600pixels (800x600 is pretty much the lowest common
resolution in use) so that it renders with the same layout on all browsers,
and on a higher resolution (say 1280x960) these will have large gaps down
each side. Also if you have a high resolution setting then fonts will appear
small - did you write your home page yourself? If so I'm guessing you
adjusted the font to a size you find suitable, but on a lower resolution
screen will appear huge. Also check that your IE text size is set to Medium
(View menu, choose Text Size, and make sure Medium is selected) - if it set
to less than medium then text sizes will appear smaller than intended on
sites you visit.

Dan

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Kathy

You don't mention the version of Windows you are using, but, try the
following and see if it helps:

Go to>Tools>Internet Explorer>General tab>Accessibility
Under Formatting> check the boxes for "Ignore font styles specified on Web
pages" and "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages".

Font Size Settings Not Retained in Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255062

If you have a Wheel mouse, you can also hold down the Cntrl key on keyboard
and move the mouse wheel forward or backward to adjust the text size to the
size you wish on each age.

Are you using a laptop?

Hope this helps.

Jan
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[Guest]

Hi,
Thank you both for responding to me. The text is set at medium.
I have checked the boxes for "Ignore font styles specified on Web pages" and
"Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages". The text was fine but now all the
pictures are on top of each other when we go to another website. I also check
out the link that Jan mention but it was not helpful.

The windows version is Prof XP.

We are using the following websites: these websites are fine on other
systems we have.
This one is good http://www.yahoo.com/
This one is small http://news.yahoo.com/

Hi Kathy

You don't mention the version of Windows you are using, but, try the
following and see if it helps:

Go to>Tools>Internet Explorer>General tab>Accessibility
Under Formatting> check the boxes for "Ignore font styles specified on Web
pages" and "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages".

Font Size Settings Not Retained in Internet Explorer and Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q255062

If you have a Wheel mouse, you can also hold down the Cntrl key on keyboard
and move the mouse wheel forward or backward to adjust the text size to the
size you wish on each age.

Are you using a laptop?

Hope this helps.

Jan
MS MVP - IE [DTS/AumHa]
Smiles are meant to be shared,
that's why they're so contagious.

Replies are posted only to the newsgroup for the benefit or other readers.
How to make a good newsgroup post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

I am running Internet Explorer 6.0 and my home page is the font and size I
like but ever time I go to another page the font and size is of the page
changes with every website I visit. Sometimes the font is so small I can
not
see the text and the page does not take up the whole page.

Does anyone have any suggestions.

THank you, Kathy

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Kathy wrote on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:15:30 -0800:

Hi,
Thank you both for responding to me. The text is set at medium.
I have checked the boxes for "Ignore font styles specified on Web pages"
and "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages". The text was fine but now
all the pictures are on top of each other when we go to another website. I
also check out the link that Jan mention but it was not helpful.

The windows version is Prof XP.

We are using the following websites: these websites are fine on other
systems we have.
This one is good http://www.yahoo.com/
This one is small http://news.yahoo.com/

Well, there are a few differences between the two sites I can see straight
away.

Yahoo uses a larger font on the tabs at the top, News uses smaller bold font

Yahoo has a page consistencing almost entirely of links, News is mostly text


However, they do look pretty close to each other on the size of the majority
of the text on all the XP and 2K machines I've tried here at work.

Can you put the Ignore settings back to being unchecked, and see if that
helps? It might be doing this clears the setting correctly, and will help if
it the registry settings were invalid previously. Also make sure that
"Format documents using my style sheet" on the Accessibility settings is
unchecked - in order to fix any possible invalid setting first tick it,
press OK, then go back in and untick and press OK again.

Also check the Fonts setting (Tools > Internet Options > Font button), my PC
has

Language script: Latin based
Web page font: Times New Roman
Plain text font: Courier New

If you fonts are different, it's possible that IE is using a font with a
smaller default size if there's no matching style in the CSS used in the
pages.

Also make sure that the Encoding (View > Encoding) is set to Auto-select,
and the appropriate language for your location - mine here is set to Western
European (Windows).

Other than that, the only other reason I can think of for this problem is
that somehow your fonts have been replaced in Windows itself with a smaller
version, but that seems highly unlikely.

Dan