font size and CSS

[remmo]

I think I'm having a problem with the font size on my site.

I have set the font size in css to x-small yet when I view my site in Explorer 6 it keeps showing my site in a "medium" size font - and I have to manually select font size "smaller" to get the site looking right.

Are others having the same problem and how do I fix it - when you look at site look at a shop page as the first page is made outside of actinic

eg. http://www.thehoneyfarm.com.au/acatalog/

[pinbrook]

on section pages you have section headings defined as

<h2 class="blue">tasmanian manuka honey</h2>

on fruit honey page the products names seem to be showing in size 12, is that the size of x-small

Can you be more specific please

[remmo]

Sorry Jo,

On the shop pages I have some grey links - "Log In", "View Cart", and "Check Out". When I start up Explorer for the first time and look at my site the "View Cart" and "Check Out" appear on two lines. I then need to go to view>text size> (in Explorer) to change the size from medium to smalller so that these words appear on one line only. Then I can go to any pageon my site and it looks like it should. Maybe its not an Actinic problem but an Explorer one?

[pinbrook]

Ok I see now....

Looking at the code the text size is controlled by CSS class "navbar"

Check the font size within this definition.

Additionally I notice : login is control by class nav, checkout and basket are controlled by class navbar

[pinbrook]

additionally I seem to remember coming across this in the past where IE will display all fonts one size bigger than FF.

For this reason I stopped using small, medium large etcetc in my css definitions and reverted to the politically incorrect size 10,12, 14 etc

[remmo]

Thanks Jo,

I'll see what effect it has when I change the text size to 10,12 etc instead of small.

[jont]

Using EM as the font size would be the better option for accessibility issues