ie7 resizes text automagically

May 5, 2008 2:50 PM

XHTML+CSS issue: IE7 automatically enlarging text and uncentering stuff.

I am developing a website. It looks fine in all browsers (FF, IE6, Opera and Safari) except IE7:
When I load a page, it bumps up the font size to what looks like "very big", and the main content is no longer centered. If I make any changes to Zoom or Font Size, the font goes back to a normal size and the content is centered again. It stays centered regardless of how small or large I make the text: I can't go back to the uncentered state, except by loading another page. If I reload the same page, it fixes itself.
The page is here and the CSS here. Using IE 7.0.5730.11

posted by signal to computers & internet (4 comments total)

At a quick glace using Ems for font sizes could be your problem, possibly as a result of interacting badly with the pixel fontszie you set in BODY.
posted by Artw at 3:02 PM on May 5

To start, your XHTML doesn't validate, it seems there's a stray space before the doctype declaration.

Also, IE7 has issues with the * hack:

* html .container .head .menu1 a

In my experience, it's much better to separate all the IE hacks in different CSS documents and link them with conditional comments (I use one for IE 6 and lower, with all the box model hacks, and one for IE7 if needed).

Hope this helps!
posted by clearlydemon at 3:05 PM on May 5 [1 favorite]

It was a validation issue, a stray BOM in my templates.
Thanks!
posted by signal at 3:21 PM on May 5

Whew. Glad to know it's fixed!
posted by clearlydemon at 9:42 PM on May 5