jumbled text on my website with safari & firefox

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jumbled text on my website with safari & firefox

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Hi,

Two members have kindly pointed out a problem with text on my homepage. It all looks fine to me on IE7.

LL said: "I use a Mini-Mac and browse through Safari. It's the last paragraph bottom left of your home page and it is still jumbled when I looked at it again just now."

Enid says the same is happening in Firefox.

I've rewritten the offending par but am told there's no improvement.

Any techie wizards able to shed light on the prob? (I've built using Yahoo sitebuilder so they've written the code for me...)

Thanks!!
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Post by marcus »

I'm not seeing a problem in firefox...is it solved now?
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Post by tree-peony »

maybe something to do with DPI settings? looks fine to me as well :)
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Post by greenfrog »

is DPI something I can do anything about?

Or indeed do I need to, if it's looking okay now?!

Anyone with safari seeing any probs?

(thanks to everyone for your help!)
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nope, DPI is set under display properties on individual machines :)
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well that's much clearer now! :roll: :shock:

I did, at least, work out it's not my fault!! :D
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Post by Angel »

Hi... the problem is the viewer's font size and/or dpi which is outside your control. Sitebuilder has used <br> to force a line break to format the paragaph to flow around the photos. So if someone has chosen a larger font, it is going to look odd.

There's also lots of inline CSS clouding the issue. :?

That's the problem with these so-called WYSIWYG editors. Unfortunately, What You See Is (not) What You Get!
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Post by enid »

Sorry to have misled- but my point was that ar my default font size it was the only site doing this and my default is small.
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Post by greenfrog »

Thanks for taking the time to check out my site.

I've now adjusted several things with help of super-geek bro.

If anyone is still seeing probs, perhaps you could let me know?
Thanks!!
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Sorted :D
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Post by greenfrog »

Phew! Thanks for your patience, Enid! And everyone else.
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