From: Pat Veriepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I thought I had figured this out with Firebug, but the text is still not >bold. It's a nested ul ul. > >The linked text saying "THIS SHOULD BE BOLD" is bold in Safari but not >in Firefox or IE. Could this be a problem because of a bug in both >browsers with nested lists? > >Please check out this url: http://veriepe.com/TEST222.html
Personally, I don't think that there is a bug at all. You have set the font-size in your body selector to be 70%. On my computer, that makes the lines that make up the glyphs of the font only one pixel wide. When I changed the font-size to 80% (or simply increased the font size in the browser), it was clear that the text is bold. At 80%, the browser makes the lines 2px wide. What's a browser to do to make something bold when it has nothing to work with? (only one pixel, in other words). Using the Web Developer toolbar in Firefox, and editing the CSS to to switch from bold to normal, that browser *does* change something between the two font-weights. Try it and see. Apparently Safari draws the font differently than Firefox if you can clearly tell that the text is bold in that browser. 78% for the body font-size is the smallest percent that I could use on your page to get Firefox to clearly show what I would call bold text. This is where the gliph's lines went from being 1px wide to being 2px wide. I have noticed in the past, when using very tiny type, that browsers show bold text by increasing the width of the glyphs themselves (not just the lines). This is what is happening with your bold text. When bold is applied, a lower case "o" for example, is 4px wide from one side to the other. When bold is applied, it is 5px wide. So, if you want the text to "look" bold, you're going to have to increase the font-size, I think. I hope this is useful. ~holly ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/