Trouble seeing web page properly

[Guest]

My IE 6 does not display all of the graphics included on a web page properly.
I see buttons and icons and some images but the font sizes and page layout
do not seem to adjust to the screen and some are left off. The simplest
example is www.mapquest.com should have a light green image that is a
background for part of the page and I don't see the green image at all. Also
the button, "search for locations" is huge and the caption is too big to
display in the button. Lots of formatting problems all over the page.

Am I missing a setting for graphics?

Please advise,
Thanks, Gordon

 

[Rob Parsons]

I may be wrong but try switching off the User Stylesheet setting in IE.

Start the IE control panel..
Tools\Internet Options menu

Select the Accessibility button on the General tab.

Uncheck the 'format documents using my stylesheet' the option (if it is
checked)

Here is a snippet from the page

<input type="submit" value="Search for Locations" class="submit" />

that class="submit" suggests that your puter has its own definition for
styling that class.

 

[Guest]

The Stylesheet option is not checked, so unfortunately this did not solve my
problem.

Another clue is that I had trouble setting up the ActiveX control when we
went to get Windows Updates.

Thanks, Gordon

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

My IE 6 does not display all of the graphics included on a web page properly.
I see buttons and icons and some images but the font sizes and page layout
do not seem to adjust to the screen and some are left off. The simplest
example is www.mapquest.com should have a light green image that is a
background for part of the page and I don't see the green image at all. Also
the button, "search for locations" is huge and the caption is too big to
display in the button. Lots of formatting problems all over the page.

I just reproduced your last symptom by using View, Text Size, Largest
(Alt-V,x,g). Looks as if that page can't handle that font size unless you
use the Accessibility dialog to "Ignore font sizes specified in web pages"
(Alt-T,O,Alt-e,z). Also of course, if I use that same dialog's
"Ignore colors specified on web pages" (Alt-T,O,Alt-e,c) I can reproduce
your first symptom.

Try toggling both of those Accessibility settings while View, Text Size
is set to Medium (Alt-V,x,M) or smaller. Sometimes toggling settings
has the effect of repairing some corrupted settings.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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[Guest]

Thanks for helping all! A solution appeared by looking at font problems on
the NG.

The Accessability Options, High Contrast box was the culpret.

Thanks, Gordon