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Unanswered IE8 Zoom in and Zoom reset cause Select comboboxes to be big with small text

  • Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:56 PM
     
     
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    Can someone tell me how to correct this problem?  Or point me to an official KB relating to this zoom issue with HTML selection boxes?

    I have a problem where all SELECT combo box dropdowns have an unexpected display issue after being zoomed in to be large and then reset to normal 100% zoom.

    I'm running IE v8.0.6001.18702 on several systems; but as an example I have the problem on Windows Server 2003 R2.

    Steps to reproduce:
    1. Open IE8
    2. Open the example HTML at the bottom of this post 
    3. Click the zoom selection in the bottom right and select 200% and everything gets large.
    4. Click the zoom value on the bottom right to toggle back to 100% and only the font inside the combo box gets small; while the box itself stays large.

    <HTML><BODY>
    <div style="text-align: center"><select id="selBox">
    <option value="0"> First </option>
    <option value="1"> Second </option>
    <option value="2"> Third </option>
    <option value="3"> Fourth </option>
    <option value="4"> Fifth </option>
    </select></div>
    </BODY></HTML>

    • Edited by Belcaw Tuesday, August 28, 2012 8:57 PM
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  • Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:54 PM
     
     
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    Hi,

    F12 to display the developer tool..... Quirks document mode means that IE8 users Quirks mode rendering on web documents that have no Document type declaration.

    browsers differ in how they correct markup errors in web pages. Quirks mode is dead and a valid dtd should be used.

    Rob^_^