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Firefox, unlike IE, is displaying my pages in very small print that is hardly legible; please help.

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Firsk
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My website consists of 6 pages, and on Firefox, 2 of the pages show the printing very small. On both pages, the printing occurs within a white box. It does not happen on Internet Explorer. I have no other browsers, so I don't know about any others. But, I know Firefox is popular, and I would like all the pages to be legible on Firefox. Can you help me?

My website consists of 6 pages, and on Firefox, 2 of the pages show the printing very small. On both pages, the printing occurs within a white box. It does not happen on Internet Explorer. I have no other browsers, so I don't know about any others. But, I know Firefox is popular, and I would like all the pages to be legible on Firefox. Can you help me?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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Safari and Firefox calculate relative font size slightly differently than IE and Opera do.

font-size: x-small is what you specify as font size. Try using 12 or 14 as a specific size for the font, rather than a relative such as x-small and large.

cor-el
cor-el
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There is usually no need to specify a font size that way and if you do then use a relative specification like 1em (100%) and 1.5em (150%) and 0.7em (70%). I would advise to avoid specifying a size smaller than 100% for body text.