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I need a little bit of help with a text issue. When I check my newly constructed page in Safari, it looks exactly as I have designed it, however testing the same page in Firefox or Internet Explorer has the text expanded spilling over into areas where it shouldn’t. Is this just something just have to live with or can I force the browsers to display the text exactly the same.


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Build your website using the box layout method or try if the Relative Page Layout action can already help you.


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And post a link to your page if you need further advice.

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Years ago I owned a prepress shop, and have since worked in many print
production environments. There is no guarantee that fonts will display
exactly the same on different machines –even using the same font file.
Different browsers have different font-rendering mechanisms, different
operating systems for handling fonts, and different font user settings that
you can never anticipate.

Designing web pages to display type in tight-fitting pixel-perfection
layouts is not the winning strategy. My advice is to let go of that idea
and start building flexibility into your design. When you are designing,
set your browser zoom to text only and play with it. My opinion is if you
can bump the text zoom up and down a notch without breaking the layout, you
will likely be good.

Start looking at how you create your layouts … are you using too many
containers? Is it possible to use type adjustments like line-height
(leading) or margins and padding to achieve your text layout? You can still
have beautiful pages that leave room for a variety of user experiences.


Ernie Simpson

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Rattie email@hidden wrote:

I need a little bit of help with a text issue. When I check my newly
constructed page in Safari, it looks exactly as I have designed it, however
testing the same page in Firefox or Internet Explorer has the text expanded
spilling over into areas where it shouldn’t. Is this just something just
have to live with or can I force the browsers to display the text exactly
the same.


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