Hi all, I've no doubt some of you know this, and some of you have read the article, however in a turn of happy coincidence for myself as I was trying to puzzle out the answer as to why my Monospace font heading in Safari was not behaving as I thought it should, I happened to have Mr Eric Meyers blog open in another browser; http://meyerweb.com and therein was the answer; http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing
To quickly summarise the article, firstly I didn't actually know (or hadn't remembered) that whilst browsers default font size to 16px, monospace fonts are sized at 13px. Additionally, sized in em's not all browsers will transfer a monospace styled element it's parent font size, and finally even after specifying the font family Safari still won't confer the desired sizing. As it transpires the work around is in the font-stack. Oddly by setting the font-stack with 'serif' (or even sans-serif I presume) as the final font family Safari finally plays ball, eg; (font-family: "Corier Neu", monospace, serif; font-size: 1em;) - snippet taken from Mr Meyers' article - http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/02/12/fixed-monospace-sizing/ As this nearly became a question to the group and only lucky chance provided the answer in minutes, and the information was previously unknown to me, I thought I'd share especially to those creating novel font stacks. Cheers, John Unsworth ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
