# test size coding

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [April 7, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170 "2005-04-07T04:29:44Z")
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### Author: ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/1 "2005-04-07T04:29:44Z")

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test

test test

test test test

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### Author: ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/2 "2005-04-07T04:30:58Z")

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Didn’t size=1 used to be considerable smaller?

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### Author: ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/3 "2005-04-07T15:37:50Z")

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Or considerably smaller even. [Listerine Smiley]

I thought it was a little smaller before the recent upgrade, but I thought it was just my deluded mind seeing it. Nice to know there are other deluded minds out there with me.

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/4 "2005-04-07T17:32:00Z")

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[sub][sup][sub][sup]But there are other ways to make tiny text.[/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub]

[sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup]Or even tinier.[/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub]

[sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup]How low can you go?[/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub]

[sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup][sub][sup]And so on…[/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub]

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### Author: ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/5 "2005-04-07T17:50:27Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> [sub][sup][sub][sup]But there are other ways to make tiny text.[/sup][/sub][/sup][/sub]

JFYI, that trick is browser dependent. The text is tiny in FireFox, yet an old copy of IE (5.0) shows it as normal subscript size no matter how many levels you use.

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### Author: ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/6 "2005-04-07T20:07:36Z")

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Hey, it’s fixed!!

I sware, yesterday when I posted that OP my size=1 example was normal size with the other ones slightly bigger.

I am not crazy damnit!!

> [@AndyPolley](#):
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> [Listerine Smiley]

heh

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### Author: ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-size-coding/298170/7 "2005-04-07T20:09:04Z")

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> [@Squink](#):
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> JFYI, that trick is browser dependent. The text is tiny in FireFox, yet an old copy of IE (5.0) shows it as normal subscript size no matter how many levels you use.

that’s true of IE 6.0 as well.