Text of Entries Keep Changing

traceycrockett · Post by **traceycrockett** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:00 am

HELP! I've been blogging for a few months now and no matter what I do the text font & size keeps changing each time I make an entry. How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Tracey Crockett

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:33 pm

Tracey,

We can definitely solve this. We'll need a bit more information first.

Are you saying that each entry has a different font and text size? Or are you saying that you use a particular font and size, but Serendipity is defaulting to a different combination so you must re-specify every time? Or are you saying that the preview is different from the front page?

Are you using the WYSIWYG editor or the plain text editor?

Can we see the problem on your blog (can you give us a URL)?

traceycrockett · Post by **traceycrockett** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:50 pm

Here's the URL for the blog:

http://choreserrandsnmore.com/cblog/

Also, we're using the same font and size, but each time we post an entry it looks different.

As for the other questions, I don't have a clue what you mean, but I'll find out. THanks for your patience.

Tracey

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:40 pm

Tracey,

I visited your blog with FireFox under Windows XP SP2. I scrolled through three entries on the front page, and each seemed to use the same font. I also opened each of the three entries separately ("Spare Time", "Switching Gears - Back To School", and "Elder Care"), and each time the same font was used.

In short, it looks like the problem is either:
1) Solved!

2) Specific to your browser/environment
3) Occuring during administration, not for the user

Care to comment on which it is?

d_cee · Post by **d_cee** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:44 am

Hi tracey
I've had alook at your blog with Firefox 1.5 (mac) and I see exactly what you are describing. I've put a screenshot here for judebert as I'm sure he'll be much more able to help than I will.

i've also taken alook at the source code and noticed that the entry 'Spare Time' is styled like this

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<p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

and the next entry 'Switching Gears – Back to School' is styled like this

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<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" color="#000000" size="2">

Dave

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:42 pm

Someone -- Carl, I think -- recently found that a blog having a similar problem had mismatched classes in the style.css and page source. In that case, it was serendipityEntry_Title and serendipityEntryTitle (or something like that; I just waded through 140 missed posts and I'm too lazy to look for it again).

Could you check that the classes in your source match the ones in your style.css? The FireFox editCSS plugin would be almost ideal for that.