It's unfortunately commonplace for browsers not to inherit the properties set for the body tag down into tables. You can get around that by explicitly specifying the same properties for table cells.

"Reverse engineering" the HTML is a chore indeed; it might be more helpful to just look at the site's own CSS at the top of the page source. My Perl-blue theme is a fairly comprehensive batch of settings that might also help.

pmdev are aware of the sometimes incredibly awful HTML quality of the site, but it's a huge code/page base to fix and manpower is limited, esp as each patch has to be tested and applied by one of the much fewer gods. Also, Everything's approach of storing the majority of the code itself in the database, though very powerful and flexible, also has obvious drawbacks with regards to collaborative development efforts.

It's a slowly evolving work in progress.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Font sizes. by Aristotle
in thread Font sizes. by Abigail-II

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