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tnsbuff

tnsbuff

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Jan 23, 2002
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Hi,

I promise I will not post another question today ... after the one that follows: ;-)

I downloaded a trial of an html validator and in validating my pages, it mentioned that I should specify the document type declaration on line 1. I've never done this before though I'd heard that you should, so I chose:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN&quot; &quot;
But I noticed that after adding that, all of my fonts got really, really small, so I removed it until I could figure out what the problem was. (I'm using relative percentages in my style sheet for font sizes.)

Does anyone know what would cause that?

Thanks very much - all of you have been really helpful!
 
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Put this in the page:

<BASEFONT size=&quot;6&quot;></BASEFONT>(i can't remember if it needs to be ended)

Rick It's a pleasure to know that I've helped you. If I have,
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Thanks ristmo, but it's still causing major problems. I think I need to read up on the DTD's. Maybe I need to use a different one.

Will check it out and report back.

Thanks again!
 
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