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How do I fix a font size problem on Android Chrome?

davidao

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I hope this is the right place to ask this. I am creating a set of web pages (bare-bones static HTML) that will be read by arbitrary users, but mostly Android Chrome on phones. The basic problem is that under certain circumstances, the text of paragraphs becomes really tiny. There is no problem on Firefox or Opera (Windows), on Chrome on a PC, or anything on a Mac or Iphone. The simplest version of the problem is when a paragraph has fewer than 2 lines, for example:

<html><body><p>This is one very short paragraph</p><p>This is a second short paragraph</p></body></html>

I have tested this on two Android phones using Chrome and a Lenovo Tab tablet. If you add enough text to those paragraphs that it goes over 2 lines (given the 6pt or so type that it displays in), the point size becomes correct. I have experimented with various ways of explicitly setting the size, such as

<p style="font-size:120%;">

for each paragraph, also using pt and em, and this does not cure the problem, though with some settings it kicks the can down the road (sometimes it works at 117% size). The second circumstance is if there is any button in a paragraph, thus

<p>This is a small <button>button</button> in a paragraph. No matter how long the paragraph, the whole paragraph is in really small print</p>

Setting an explicit size for the button (and / or paragraph) has no effect. The pages are loaded with buttons (which play sound) I would like the problem to go away, I have no idea if this can be fixed but it seems pretty bizarre and surely I'm missing something obvious.
 
Welcome to Android Forums. I moved your thread into the Android Development area. Your question is mostly a html question and we don't have a specific area for such. I hope this is the best fit for help and I hope someone can solve your problem.
 
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