Wes Worsham wrote:
I think it's just you... Or, I should say, your browser. I spot
checked a few, all seem fine.
It's not just Chris. I saw the same thing, with the first ad (the one for the
Monza upper radiator panel), in Firefox on both Linux and Mac OS X and in
Safari on Mac OS X. The seller used the long-ago-deprecated <font> element to
change text color, but didn't specify a size. It appears that the lack of a
size attribute combined with no closing </font> element results in the text
getting larger and larger.
Proper use of CSS would've avoided this. This is bad:
This is some <font color="red">red</font> text.
This is good:
This is some <span style="text-color: red;">red</span> text.
A (probably ancient) browser that doesn't understand CSS will skip right past
it, so the red text remains black instead. The latter example doesn't screw
around with the text size, so it should stay constant.
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