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Request #66131 Inconsistent font sizes
Submitted: 2013-11-20 23:51 UTC Modified: 2014-03-14 14:26 UTC
From: mytskine at gmail dot com Assigned: levim (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Website problem
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 [2013-11-20 23:51 UTC] mytskine at gmail dot com 
Description:
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Some fonts size are in relative units (e.g. "1em") while others have a fixed size (e.g. code samples have a size of "14px").

Expected result:
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Coherent font size : plain text and code sample should have roughly the same size.
Either fixed sizes for all, or relative sizes for all (preferred).

Actual result:
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Depending on the default font of the browser, the code samples can be much larger than most of the text on the page (e.g. 14px/9px means a 56% larger code font).

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 [2014-03-05 21:22 UTC] levim@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Assigned To: +Assigned To: levim
 [2014-03-05 21:22 UTC] levim@php.net 
In the case of font sizes, this is intentional. For whatever reason, every monospace font I tested was rendered differently in ems across various browsers, but experienced no problems in fixed point fonts. I can re-investigate this to see if I can find a better solution; I am going to move to rem instead of em anyway.
 [2014-03-05 21:23 UTC] levim@php.net 
In my previous comment I said "In the case of font sizes, this is intentional" but meant "In the case of font sizes for code samples, this is intentional"
 [2014-03-14 14:26 UTC] levim@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 [2014-03-14 14:26 UTC] levim@php.net 
This should be fixed with the conversion from em to rem. See this commit: https://github.com/php/web-php/commit/ae01ce157383dcf7b763c66cc50a6c1c72ed4238

There are a few commits afterwards that do minor cleanup but everything seems to integrate better.
 
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