Page Rendering Muddled

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Allen B
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Page Rendering Muddled

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When I look at this page (like many others) - http://audio.claub.net/software/jbabgy/PCD.html

It looks like this screenshot I took..

https://ibb.co/9pQSSNN

..but the site owner sent me this screenshot of how it should look..

https://ibb.co/9hK7wTx

The only thing I can think is that I have custom font sizes in Firefox.
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Allen B wrote:When I look at this page (like many others) - http://audio.claub.net/software/jbabgy/PCD.html

It looks like this screenshot I took..

https://ibb.co/9pQSSNN

..but the site owner sent me this screenshot of how it should look..

https://ibb.co/9hK7wTx

The only thing I can think is that I have custom font sizes in Firefox.
This is what I see with FF 105.0b9
https://imgbox.com/N5icumIv

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(Also fine on my end, 106a.)
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The position of content blocks dictated by page's style rules do not correspond to the order of content in the HTML. At all. This page is built using a lot of absolution positioning, which is annoying to debug, but should work. Perhaps something in your Firefox modifies how positioned elements are placed on the page. An add-on maybe?
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Modifying the minimum font size can lead to issues with content that is positioned absolutely.
I can replicate this with a minimum font size of 17 or higher.

Settings -> General -> Language and Appearance -> Fonts -> Advanced -> Minimum Font Size (none)
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I can replicate this with a minimum font size of 17 or higher.
Confirmed.
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I had a medical web site that would have some pages that did the exact same thing, along with a couple of other sites.

This stop it. Settings--fonts--advanced--(put check mark in) allow pages to choose their own fonts.

Stopped it on every site, every page.
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Thank you all. Setting the fonts to the default values works but they are too small on my screen (1920x1080). I don't even like the way the page zoom feature works.

It's been this way with Firefox on Linux for as long as I can remember (that I have to enlarge the default fonts), but lately it's been worse on pages.

I've been using Firefox since Netscape in 1996, but it's getting hard to justify. I may have to look around.

In any case I'll pass this info on to the site owner, thanks.
jscher2000 wrote:The position of content blocks dictated by page's style rules do not correspond to the order of content in the HTML. At all. This page is built using a lot of absolution positioning, which is annoying to debug, but should work. Perhaps something in your Firefox modifies how positioned elements are placed on the page. An add-on maybe?
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Firefox has a Zoom section in Settings to set the default zoom level for webpages.
Settings -> General -> Language and Appearance -> Zoom
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