# Font size is screwing up on me...

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**Created:** [April 4, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684 "2005-04-04T16:36:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/1 "2005-04-04T16:36:20Z")

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Not to pick on **Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor** , but I think his new sig is screwing up my font sizing… I’ve noticed in a few threads that right after he posts, all the posts below his are in a larger font. Interestingly enough, it’s only the actual texts of the posts that are larger. Everything else is normal.

Is this just happening to me, or are ohers experiencing the same thing?

FTR, I’m using Firefox to read the SDMB.

Here’s the coding of **Bosda** ’s sig:

> [@](#):
>
> \<!-- sig --\>  
> \<div\>  
> \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\<br /\>
> 
> ```
> &lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;font face="Algerian"&gt; &lt;font color="Red"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;ATTENTION Dopers!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="Blue"&gt;Girl Genius&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt; online Comic, by &lt;font color="Blue"&gt;Phil Foglio&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
> 
> ```
> 
> Begins 4/18/05. \<b\>Free!\</b\> Adventure! Romance! Mad Science! Mice! \<br /\>  
> \<a href=“[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/)” target="\_blank"\>CLICK HERE, NOW!\</a\>\</div\>\</font\>\</font\>  
> \</div\>
> 
> ```
> &lt;!-- / sig --&gt;
> 
> ```

It looks OK to me, but I’m not a coding whiz, either… is it missing a font closing tag or something?

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**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/2 "2005-04-04T16:50:43Z")

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Can you post a link to specific threads?

I just checked a handfull of his posts an saw no problems with those threads. (IE 6, by the way)

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/3 "2005-04-04T17:12:49Z")

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It must be browser-specific. I noticed this on my Mac at home, using AOL’s browser, but not now on my PC at work, using IE.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/4 "2005-04-04T17:53:51Z")

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I got a missive from a Mod, & altered my sig a little.  
Does it help?  
Post here & test.

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**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/5 "2005-04-04T18:22:06Z")

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Testing

Testing

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**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/6 "2005-04-04T18:25:17Z")

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Well, I was having the same issue in a pit thread (can’t figure out which one now), but this post seems okay. This is even after going out of ATMB into the Pit and back here into ATMB, so I think it’s okay.

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/7 "2005-04-04T19:05:54Z")

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> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#):
>
> I got a missive from a Mod, & altered my sig a little.  
> Does it help?  
> Post here & test.

That seems to have done the trick! Thanks **Bosda**! 🆒

I’m curious, though: what did yuo change that was causing the fonts to mess up for me?

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/8 "2005-04-04T19:07:45Z")

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And could you also change whatever it is that is causing the word “you” to be screwed up as well? Thanks in advance! :smack:

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/font-size-is-screwing-up-on-me/297684/9 "2005-04-04T22:41:13Z")

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> [@Astroboy14](#):
>
> That seems to have done the trick! Thanks **Bosda**! 🆒
> 
> I’m curious, though: what did you change that was causing the fonts to mess up for me?

Umm…not certain.

I changed several things.

And, fixed you spelling.  
🙂