Solved: Style sheets for Mac machines

Could you specify what "some stylesheets" exactly means? Which elements, which properties don't work?

Are you using a different browser on the Mac, or the same version as when tested on a windows machine (I'm assuming...)?

-Josh

morya1

ASKER

I am using style sheets. I have one for Netscape and one for IE browsers and they work just fine. However when
the page is viewed on a Mac some of the fonts are so small as to be barely readable.

The CSS in question are these below:

toplinks
{
font-style : normal;
font-size : 75%;
font-weight : bold;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color : #003399;
}

.hdsmall
{
font-style : normal;
font-size : 70%;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color : black;
}

.login
{
font-style : normal;
font-size : 70%;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color : black;
}

.leftnav
{
font-size : 65%;
font-family : Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

It would appear that wherever I have 65% or 70% as a size it is too small. However, there is one incidence where it
is also too small and that is with this:

.navpanel {
font-size:9pt;
font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-serif;
text-decoration: none;
color : "#000000";
}

Do I just need to increase the % and the pt size, or is there something else I am missing here?

Michael

jbirk

Well I can explain the the problem with the %s. The user can define their default font size in the browser. If they define it to be smaller then it will try to 65% of whatever they defined... So this may be causing what you are seeing. You should use a pt size always...

As for 9pt being small, I'm not sure... It could be that the mac doesn't have one or all of the fonts listed in the font face and it's going to an unexpected font which is smaller. You should check to see what fonts are on that machine. If it doesn't have any of those three fonts, maybe you should add one to the list which includes a default mac font which suits your purpose.

Which browser and version are you using on the Mac??
-Josh

morya1

ASKER

Okay, I think I may have found the problem.
The code is below:

<a class="hdsmall" href="http://www.ibooks.com">MyWishList</a> |

Question: In a PC stylesheets over rule the font tags. Correct? But do they over ride font tags with a MAC?

Michael

morya1

ASKER

Okay, I think I may have found the problem.
The code is below:

<a class="hdsmall" href="http://www.ibooks.com">MyWishList</a> |

Question: In a PC stylesheets over rule the font tags. Correct? But do they over ride font tags with a MAC?

Michael

morya1

ASKER

Okay, I think I may have found the problem.
The code is below:

<a class="hdsmall" href="http://www.ibooks.com">MyWishList</a> |

Question: In a PC stylesheets over rule the font tags. Correct? But do they over ride font tags with a MAC?

Michael

jbirk

Since the font tag is within the anchor tag which has the class, it should override it. If it's not overriding it on windows, that's an error...
You can have the font tag use style sheets too though...

Anyway, you should elliminate the ambiguity. Choose one or the other:
<a href="http://www.ibooks.com">MyWishList</a>
or
<a class="hdsmall" href="http://www.ibooks.com">MyWishList</a>

-Josh

morya1

ASKER

Thanks.

Well, it's an error that is pretty consistent because on every pc we've tested the style sheet over rides the font tag.

How would I write it to have the font tag use style sheets and why would I want to do that?

And, since pc's are okay with style sheets we can use them but we have to have the font tag in there for older browsers.

If I may ask, how would you write the above code so that macs and pcs with older and newer browsers would have the same font style, size, etc.?

Michael

morya1

ASKER

Thank you for your help.