FF Vs. IE Text size problems

[bassmonkey]

what could be causing my text to come up smaller (about half size!) in Firefox compared to IE and the actinic preview? i'm assuming it's an IE css bug of somekind, but im not so great at tracking these down. any help as to which CSS declarations i should be looking at would be much obliged!

[jont]

FF will render text slightly differently - especially depending on the user settings in the browser itself.

What units are you using for the CSS?

[RobSollars]

Sometimes these sorts of things can be fixed using:

body {
	font-size: 100%;
}

Although this could be a fix for a completely different IE issue, but I'm sure it fixes something to do with font sizes (I think it might be ems not displaying properly at larger sizes). But as jont says, it would be useful to know what units you're using, or even better if we could see an example.

[jont]

There is a css browser quirk that can be resolved in setting defaults to 101% so it is forced to make the change. You may also like to try adding the "p" tag amongst others into Rob's suggestion above.

If the fonts are viewing at half size in FF (which is a massive difference in scale) it may be worth checking your actual user settings in FF