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Fonts appearing abnormally large in IE7

I have the following specified on body: body { font: 63.5% Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

In Virtual Machines, I am unable to setup an IE7 installation to reproduce this problem, but on others' machines, some with IE7 render the font on the page abnormally large. The actual CSS and html are hundreds of lines long across multiple files, but I'm at a loss as to why only CERTAIN IE7 environments would produce this behavior.

Any thoughts on where I should be looking?

Zoom is 100% and text-size is medium. Although text-size IS medium, setting the text-size to anything larger than medium on my machines and VMs produces the same exact problem: overlapping text and images. Hmmm....

Display size in windows is set to normal (96dpi)

Solution

  • The following article was helpful for me: http://www.lealea.net/blog/comments/web-dev-problem-win-ie-on-widescreen/

    Basically IE has a "feature" for some screens (likely dell) that messes up how certain pages render. The fix has to do with turning off this feature via registry.

    You can try it with the following command (start -> run):

    reg add “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main” /v UseHr /t REG_DWORD /d 0×00000000 /f