Hi

I've managed to publish my first course as though to CD. However when I access it some of the font is changing. This seems to happen more if I view it using Mozilla although it is also happening with IE>

Any suggestions why this might be happening and ways of preventing it?

Thanks

Anne

Hi, Anne!

It happens because of no font (and font-size) is actually set to this text. In this case browser uses its default font and font-size, that can be different depending on user settings. This can happen usually as result of pasting the text in CourseLab text editor.

To avoid that you can set Internet Explorer text size setting to "large" - in this case when font settings are not set, you will see abnormally large letters.

And as Slav points out copy and pasting direct from software that adds lots of formatting code doesn't help.
Try this to see..
On a slide add two text boxes,
In one copy and paste some text directly from M$ word
In the second box paste the same text into notepad and then paste from notepad into the text box.
Open the text in the module to edit and click on the html button (farthest on the right.
Do this on both the text boxes.
HOLY **** Where did all that extra stuff come from!!

All of the codes added into the direct paste from word are quite difficult to get rid of, the frequent span tags it drops in over-ride the modules CSS so the font changes.
The modules CSS is used but gets over ridden when there is that extra font description embeded in the text itself. This is allowed in CSS but is usually a little more organised by using alternative style sheets.
I always paste from notepad or Open Office which avoids this problem.

[:)]Thank you for the advice. I had started to get rid of some of the html but hadn't realised it was because I'd cut and pasted from word.

That'll be the magic of CSS. It's actually quite difficult to get the same result on these different browsers. The quirks each have are different with each version.
You might well find that this will settle out a bit in V2.4 as it's css should reflect some of the quirks of IE and Mozilla. Unfortunately untill everyone actually uses the WC3 standards as standards rather than rough guidelines they can ignore this is always going to happen.

Best advice is ...
Always use a standard font or fonat family, one that installs on all versions of windows, Mac OS and linux.
Make sure it is declared as your base font for the module.
Hope mozilla or M$ in particular haven't changed something when you weren't looking!!!