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IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
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Oct 22nd, 2006, 13:33
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IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
Right, thought I'd better take the plunge and upload IE 7 so as to do some testing before it's forced upon an unsuspecting world. Running eventually but thats another story.
Looking at one of my newer sites, in fact not completed yet, I noticed that the font being used was not of my choice. My css file has the font-family attribute and the fonts specified are all sans-serif in type. IE7 however is displaying the pages with a serif font. You can see this if you look at ends of an 's' for example. There are other issues such as the menu for instance. In Firefox and Opera and previously in IE 6, you did not have to have your cursor over the actual menu item text. As long as it was in the block space occupied by the item, the link became live, so to speak. In IE 7 you have to be over the actual text. Although not proven yet, I have a suspicion that it has to do with the page being coded as xhtml strict and the charset specified as utf-8. Anyone got any ideas - apart from the obvious? Last edited by ukgeoff; Apr 18th, 2007 at 09:24. Reason: Link removed as no longer valid 
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Oct 23rd, 2006, 14:32
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Re: IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
probably be better off as Western iso... UTF-8 good but I think IE may have some problems with it.
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Oct 23rd, 2006, 22:34
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Re: IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
You know, I never did learn the difference between charsets or what they really are. I've always just used UTF-8. Anyone have a link? I'm not typing in good enough keywords in Google to get anything useful...
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Oct 24th, 2006, 11:39
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Re: IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
I just noticed that I used ISO-8859-1 on another site, although I can't remember where I got the charset from. Other than maybe mentioning a site is in a different language than English, I have no idea what charset does...
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Oct 24th, 2006, 13:53
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Re: IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
UTF-8 is as far as I kno wmore used by linux etc.. Windows prefers western iso I believe, however don't quote me on that. I almost always use utf-8 NGIE web site for example so dunno lol.
Last Blog Entry: Apps every Mac based web dev should consider (Jul 10th, 2008)
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Oct 24th, 2006, 16:15
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Re: IE 7 ignoring css fonts choice
Make yourself a very. very large pot of coffee or whatever beverage takes your fancy and have a look at this page.
Charset tutorial A few feeks ago I read a very clear expalnation on charsets but can't find the dam thing now. Will keep looking and post it here if I find it. Here we go. It was in this Sitepoint Newletter. Last edited by ukgeoff; Oct 24th, 2006 at 16:31. Reason: Added Sitepoint link
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