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Offline Soarer

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Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« on: Sat, 10 November 2012, 17:42:26 »
[pre]default[/pre]:
default

[pre][size=x-small]x-small[/size][/pre]:
x-small

[pre][size=small]small[/size][/pre]:
small

[pre][size=medium]medium[/size][/pre]:
medium


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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 10 November 2012, 20:47:51 »
this unfortunately depends on theme. it looks fine here (thoriated)

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 05:09:06 »
Are you sure? I just changed to thoriated and reloaded this page, and default is still the same size as x-small  :-\

I guess it could vary with theme though, and it is only one logical (CSS2) size different to normal text (which is 'small'). Still seems a big actual size diffference though, and not really usable without adding a size tag :(

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 09:25:25 »
so on my browser (chrome/win8) all that text looks exactly the same. can i get browser/OS version from you?

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 10:13:05 »
Firefox + XP. Same on Android as well. Will take screenshot later when home :)

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 12:26:16 »
What should [pre] look like?

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 12:54:28 »
pre should just be a switch from variable width to fixed width font type, no size change.
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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 11 November 2012, 16:08:13 »
So here's how it looks for me, with 'default' being the same size as 'x-small':



I can't remember what vbulletin did with pre - I'm pretty sure it didn't change size, but I think it might also not make the block a paragraph (unlike html <pre>). Or maybe that was some other tag I found!

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #8 on: Mon, 12 November 2012, 09:05:05 »
Okay. Well, on my laptop (7 & Firefox) last night, it looked like soarer posted there. At work now (7 & IE8), the text is the same size as the small text.

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 12 November 2012, 09:34:28 »
Chrome/Vista/Thoriated, the text looks likes Soarer's image. Same with Firefox.

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 13 November 2012, 11:09:37 »
I notice a difference between Chrome and Firefox on Linux as well.  I'll take a peek.
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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 13 November 2012, 11:21:53 »
silly browsers. Trix are for kids.

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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #12 on: Tue, 13 November 2012, 17:39:57 »
Should be fixed now.  The SMF guys just forgot about pre.
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Re: Why is the default size for [pre] tagged text so small?!
« Reply #13 on: Tue, 13 November 2012, 18:06:46 »
Ah-ha! Yeah, I had a quick look at the css earlier and couldn't see any style for pre, yet that just puzzled me even more!

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