Site showing large text

[Pickle]

Hello

Our website www.mugginsmugs.com went live some time ago. My colleague just looked at it on her computer and for some reason the text is really large and is overlapping all the images etc.

It works fine on my computer. She's checked other websites and they look fine on her computer.

Does anybody know what could be causing the text to look so large? Is it her settings or could it be something that I could do to the site?

[Corey Bryant]

If you tell Internet Explorer to use Larger Text, it will more than likely overlap on your computer as well.

Without seeing the source code, I take it you are probably using absolute positioning? This is one of the problems that using absolute positioning can cause. I usually try to let the elements float and land where the browser puts them. This will usually help you out when someone changes the text size.

[Ward]

I had the reverse of this problem recently with my site fonts appear tiny in a fraction of IE6 browsers though fine in the majority even with the text size at medium, I was using ems to set the font size with some absolute positioned divs. Changing to px for the font size seemed to cure it, though I still am at a loss as to why such a small percentage of IE6 browsers had difficulties when the majority were fine? Still it might help you.

[masonbarge]

"Since ems has to be relative to another font size, you must first ask, 'What font-size is it going to inherit?'"
-- from "The Zen of HTML" by I. M. Weerd

[Ward]

Yes but isn't it strange that an identical batch number of IE6 running on an XP SP2 system shows up differently and yet the text settings are the same and all other browsers read the page correctly?