Font Display IE6/XP

Fonts not displaying properly

[Debbie]

The fonts on our website are not displaying properly (one size smaller) We use the basic FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="1 tag. We cannot change to CSS due to the fact that have over 300 pages on our sites.
We have tried all the DOCTYPE declaration lines.The address is:
[debbiesdominicantravel.com...]

Any helpful easy fixes?
Thanks

Debbie

[joshie76]

Hi Debbie, welcome to WmW

Are you sure the difference isn't that you have 'small fonts' installed on your XP machine and 'large fonts' in your original.

You can check this in your Display Properties (in the Control Panel or by right clicking on your desktop {all applications minimised} and selecting properties). You'll usually find it around the Settings tab (in W2000 click the Advanced button - not sure about XP).

J

[Debbie]

Hi Josh,

Thanks. We tried that but it makes no difference

D

[Marshall]

Debbie,

I ran your page through the HTML validator on [w3c.org...] and there were several errors which might contribute to the problem. I used charset windows-1252 and doctype HTML 3.2. You may want to double check the page.

And while it may take a little time, you can convert to CSS.

[tedster]

I'm assuming that both your old and new versions of IE have text-size set to the same choice (the default I'd guess - medium).

If that's so, it's a mystery as to what is making the difference here. And your challenge is whether this same difference is being experienced by many XP users, right?

Do you feel your website suffers much when the text-size is changed? Your home page adapts rather well to any of IE's 5 choices, from what I can see.