Text appears small on some sites

When I go to certain websites, the text in it appears much smaller, as if I have changed the screen resolution, but I haven't. So I checked anyway and tried to re-apply it, but it's the same. So I looked in 'Tools' to see if there was an option there to make the text bigger but there isn't. Any ideas?

 

enrique88--The option for larger text in IE is View|Text Size, but this should apply to all webpages, not just some.

 

only some sites... it depends upon whether the web site's fonts have been set in fixed point size or not

p {font-size: 12pt;} will not be affected by IE's View > Text Size;

but
p {font-size: small;} or
p {font-size: 1em;} will alter size

HTH

best wishes, HJ

 

Weird how it affected some but not others, like this site for example.

 

have a look here which compares three ways of setting font size using CSS

it's not just the size that adjusts, normal/bold varies too (when you alter the IE text size)

ems adjust over a far larger range than small, medium, large etc.

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one reason for using fixed point size is that it provides a way (AFAIK the only way) to get a web page to appear the same viewed with a Gecko-based browser as it does when viewed with IE

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shortcut - hold down <Ctrl> while using up/down arrows or mouse wheel

best wishes, HJ