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I have traced why my CSS works and the standard ones do not. Only Borg can really say if I did the right thing but here it is.
 
Near the top of the standard CSS it says:
 
/* Text for most CSS classes */
body, .text, .smText, .error, a, a.smLink, a.msgLink, a.tLink, .WebWizRTEtextarea, .basicTable, .errorTable, .tableRow, .tableTopRow, .tableBottomRow, .evenTableRow, .oddTableRow, .hiddenTableRow, .PMtableRow, .PMmsgBody, .msgBody, .msgEvenTableRow, .msgOddTableRow, .msgHiddenTableRow, .msgOddTableSide, .msgEvenTableSide, .msgSignature, .calDateCell, .calTodayCell, .BBquote, .BBcode {
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color : #000000;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-size: 12px;
 line-height: 16px;
}
 
The 'line-height' parameter forces all line heights to 16px and of course if you select a very large font this is not enough. I simply deleted this parameter and let the font size determine the line height.


Edited by Nick-V - 24 July 2007 at 9:25pm
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The solution is replace in the body section of the CSS file:-

line-height: 16px;

With:

line-height: 1.4;

This stops the text from being scrunched up which gives a much cleaner look for the forum, but also works for larger text sizes as the line spacing is now taken from the size of the text.

This has been tested in Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE7, IE6, and Netscape, and appears to work for all of them.


Edited by -boRg- - 25 July 2007 at 9:32am
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Well Borg you know I am not IT. Show as the New Version is release later this week these little things will clear-up with that. I will just wait aswell. Thanks Nick-V for the pointer to here. I will delete my other Thread.
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Originally posted by -boRg- -boRg- wrote:

The solution is replace in the body section of the CSS file:-

line-height: 16px;

With:

line-height: 1.4;

This stops the text from being scrunched up which gives a much cleaner look for the forum, but also works for larger text sizes as the line spacing is now taken from the size of the text.

This has been tested in Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE7, IE6, and Netscape, and appears to work for all of them.
 
That did it. Thank you Borg... Smile
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Originally posted by Neno Neno wrote:

Well Borg you know I am not IT. Show as the New Version is release later this week these little things will clear-up with that. I will just wait aswell. Thanks Nick-V for the pointer to here. I will delete my other Thread.


As you host your forum with us Neno, I will make sure either myself or someone else will make this change to your forum on the server later today, so you don't need to wait for the next release.
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