thesheep

Topic: Text resizing bug in FF

Nice CSS by the way.

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but your method of setting font size to 62.5% (or 125%, then 50%) seems to cause a slight bug when reducing text size in Firefox (I'm testing with FF2.0). The text enlarges OK, but won't reduce beyond standard size, which might be an issue (sometimes it is useful to be able to reduce by 1 step).

I've found that it is better to set the font size to 100% on the body, which sets everything to 16px, then resize in ems accordingly on specific element types (e.g. set paragraphs to 0.875em).

David

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

hi thesheep,

I'm not sure I'm following here. How is the text resize buggy using tripoli? This site uses tripoli and I can't find anything wrong with resizing text....

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kser

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

I see this all the time with Firebug in Firefox 3 beta.. And not with Tripoli. Try disabling Firebug and then re-enabling it.

David

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

So, is this a FF3/firebug issue? Can we confirm this?

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maniqui

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

I can confirm this (that font-size can't be reduced), and in fact, it's possible to reproduce this behavior on the Tripoli HTML Sample page.
Not sure if this is a a FF bug or a FF+Firebug bug.

maniqui

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

The test I've made on my previous posting was done on Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Linux (Kubuntu 7.04) and Firebug 1.X (beta, but can't remember exactly which version, and I'm at home now)

BUT now I've tested this issue on Firefox 2.0.0.14/Win + Firebug 1.05 and I have no problems on resizing (reducing) the text.
Also, tested on Portable Firefox 3.0 beta 5 (Win) + Firebug 1.1 beta and again, no problem on reducing the text...

Further research has to be done...

bluevibe

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

Isn't this simply caused by the "minimum font size" setting?

If you have the web developer toolbar extension it can be set via Disable -> Disable Minimun Font Size

maniqui

Re: Text resizing bug in FF

bluevibe,

that was the cause. Thanks.