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[SandTEngineer]

Is it just me or has the text size on the front index page suddenly grown in stature......

[grahame]

Is it just me or has the text size on the front index page suddenly grown in stature......

It could be the "site style" in the top menu bar.

When you visit this and change the style (as you may well have done in the past), a cookie is set to ensure that style is remembered by your browser for subsequent visits. I'm not a great fan of setting cookies for "ever and a day"; as I recall I set it for a year or two then it expires and returns you to default.

My guess - EITHER you've clicked to change the style by mistake OR the cookie has expired. I suspect you can be back to what you want in a couple of clicks armed with that information 

[SandTEngineer]

Thanks, Grahame.  I did try what you suggested but the text size on the front page is distinctly larger than that on other pages (such as individual subject index pages).  Anyway, don't worry about it as I can probably 'get a life' and live with it.....

[Chris from Nailsea]

I have experienced apparently the same effect when I've occasionally tried to view the Coffee Shop forum on my mobile phone, rather than from my laptop.

Does that help? 

[JayMac]

Yup. Front page fonts are now larger when I view on Chrome for Android.

[grahame]

I have experienced apparently the same effect when I've occasionally tried to view the Coffee Shop forum on my mobile phone, rather than from my laptop.

Does that help? 

Yup. Front page fonts are now larger when I view on Chrome for Android.

Hmmm .... and as the doctor would ask "how long has this been going on"?   

Nothing strikes me as obvious.  And can someone who's been seeing this confirm what you mean by "front page" - I have three entry points ...







First is the main page for the Coffee Shop site, second the "please log in" page and third the main board lister for people who are logged in.   Does the problem effect all three,or just one (or two) of these?

(Note - I have scaled the screen captures down so they fit within the frame of the Coffee Shop even though they ARE the frame of the Coffee Shop!

[SandTEngineer]

Grahame, its the second and third ones for me.  I'm using a SAMSUNG tablet running ANDROID.

[grahame]

Grahame, its the second and third ones for me.  I'm using a SAMSUNG tablet running ANDROID.

Appreciated ... do you know when this started happening?   A rough date?  I'm trying to work out if it's to do with some sort of change I may have made, or an upgrade to browsers;  potentially there's some slightly broken CSS^▸ (Cascading Style Sheets) code somewhere.   

I am meeting some others who visit the forum tomorrow (at the Melksham River and Food Festival - all welcome - nearest station - err - Melksham / 15 minute walk) and will have laptop an mobile internet there so I can look across a load of devices and see if I can see the problem ...

[SandTEngineer]

I first noticed it about 3-4 days ago (I think ).

[stuving]

It's not happening in Firefox on my desktop - (but I can look at the html on that).

I looked on my tablet, and it didn't happen on my usual browser - some Asus/Android supplied one.
I started Chrome on that, and it did happen.
I switched back to the other browser, and now it happens there too!

It's column 2 that is affected, not column 3 or 4. In the html debug window, both inherit "font-size=mediium" from <tr> and <td> but the third and fourth columns then apply style="width:12ex" or width="22%"; I presume that modifies the text size.

Does that help?

[grahame]

It's not happening in Firefox on my desktop - (but I can look at the html on that).

I looked on my tablet, and it didn't happen on my usual browser - some Asus/Android supplied one.
I started Chrome on that, and it did happen.
I switched back to the other browser, and now it happens there too!

It's column 2 that is affected, not column 3 or 4. In the html debug window, both inherit "font-size=mediium" from <tr> and <td> but the third and fourth columns then apply style="width:12ex" or width="22%"; I presume that modifies the text size.

Does that help?

That is enormously helpful, thank you.  I will take a look at it during a "quiet period" - needs a bit of concentration which I suspect I won't get during today.    Will add it to a couple of things I need to do during tonight - no promise of a solution, but a promise of a look-see-investigate!

[stuving]

I should have said, it's the Home (or index.php) page I was looking at there.

[grahame]

I should have said, it's the Home (or index.php) page I was looking at there.

Yep, got that. But index.php generates an awful lot of pages; this looks like a template it uses in some cases. Very odd as I don't think I've changed anything (except played with the online chat) for a while.

[stuving]

I should have said, it's the Home (or index.php) page I was looking at there.

Yep, got that. But index.php generates an awful lot of pages; this looks like a template it uses in some cases. Very odd as I don't think I've changed anything (except played with the online chat) for a while.

I mean the top-level index page that shows its URL as index.php and nothing more; the next level of index with some ?board= selector does not show the effect.

Having expanded out all the html in Firebug, I can see that columns 3 and 4 include <span class="smalltext">, column 2 does not (so I unpresume that the various width settings are relevant). But the same method is used in those lower-level indexes too, only with a few extra ones. 

Of course that's observed in a browser that does not show the effect. (And reported by someone who, as you can tell, doesn't understand html!)

[grahame]

OK .... I've taken a look

The Board Index template hasn't changed since 18th December 2006, and the overall page template since 19th August this year - in the last fortnight, the only files to change on the coffee shop have been some new attachment images added.  Everything else in the databases.

I HAVE modified that file from over 10 years ago to add "smalltext" - actually I think it's a reasonable move to help make better use of screen estate, and for consistency of columns.  I can see why it was done the way it was, but for a largely returning visitor base who know the site well, it's probably better changed.

Reporters - Please let me know if this makes any difference (please let me know if it doesn't make a difference too!)