Web Page Looks Bigger On A Different Machine : Please Help.

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by nickjason, Feb 3, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello all,
    quick question. I have created a small web site. All static. no dynamic content. I validated the pages and they are all fine. The web site looks perfect on my safari browser, firefox and internet explorer. It looks good on many other machines. but some machines (windows), I tried my web page on IE, and it looked very big. I had to scroll from one end to another. Have no idea why it happened. Also, I have lots of <DIV>'s which I have used and the outer div is centered in the middle, so everything looks centered. I have done that by using CSS :
    #container{
    position: relative;
    margin-left:auto;
    margin-right:auto;
    width: 1200px;
    height:926px;
    }

    Looks perfect in my machine (MAC), but the browser where the page looks big, when I try to change the resolution to small or view the web page small, the page moves to left and does not remain centered. I dont even know if its a problem with my CSS or HTML. Do you guys have any idea's? Please let me know cause this is the only bug thats remaining.
    Thanks in advance.
     
    nickjason, Feb 3, 2010 IP
  2. jonmaster

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    GO AND CHECK IN IE'S VIEW >text size>

    someone might have kept it maximum.

    you could also check the zoom size in the bottom
     
    jonmaster, Feb 3, 2010 IP
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    You said you've checked it in the three main browsers, and on multiple machines and this ONE is acting up... so that leads me to believe that it's one of the things below:

    - It could be the text-size setting of the browser (as the person above me mentioned)

    - Check the zoom level (it could very well be this if you have to do a significant amount of side-scrolling to see the whole page)... and I'm not sure if IE has this hot-key combo but in safari and firefox, if you press Ctrl + 0 (zero), it'll bring it back to the default zoom level--try it on IE (I would, but I'm on mac as well... thankfully).

    - It could be that computer's particular resolution setting... perhaps it's set to Large Fonts and it's somehow distorting the default view of your site.

    And good job on checking on multiple browsers, operating systems, AND machines... that takes a lot of effort so good on you :)
     
    jonbeebe, Feb 4, 2010 IP