Choosing large system fonts fudges up VBforums.com, but not other sites...

I am experimenting with large fonts, to see if I can live with reduced screen space capacity. I got this weird view of vbforums.com when I change the Appearance in Windows 98 SE. Take a look! The main font all over is yellow! You get this too!?. Just go to Settings > Control Panels > Display > Appearance > Scheme > High Contrast #1 (large)

How can a WEB PAGE's font color be affected by a system font?! I'm guessing it might maybe do that if there was no font color specified in the webpage, the default could be chosen be the OS?? But man, it does look awful. Only vbforums, so far. Notice how the yellow in the ADDRESS is exactly the same as the WEB PAGE FONT COLOR. I checked. Both #FFFF00.

I should mention I'm using Internet Explorer 5.5
Not just vbforums, for example I can see yellow in
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2110340,00.html

I looked around the Display settings... There's lots of parts where I can change font&colour, but only three things were in Yellow... Tooltip, Messagebox, and Window. I skipped the first two, went straight to testing "Window"... I changed yellow to burgendy, hit apply... whoa...

My computer nearly regurgitated. But when it was done coughing, (and I refreshed the page), All my yellow words were now burgendy, in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer!

I went to see if Netscape had the same problem... And to my shock and disbelief, NS does the same thing! Netscape 4.73 put "System Window" colour there too, exactly the same as the picture attached above.

I didn't know SYSTEM FONTS had any impact on WEB BROWSER layout... I believed the two completely independant.

HTMLforums.com appears immune to this.. It's font colours are preserved when I change colour.

glad you're keeping busy....

what resolution are you at ?? :eek:

this will blow your mind postitlord:

but if you look real hard and open the source of the page and look really hard you will see that it is setting the fonts and colors in the html. if you don't specifiy any colors in the page then it will use the users window default colors.

Code:

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<STYLE type=text/css>

SELECT    {BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc; COLOR: #51485f; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
INPUT    {BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
TEXTAREA  {BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px}
OPTION    {BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cccccc; COLOR: #51485f; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10px}
FORM    {FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10px}

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they are setting the textarea to grey and the fonts to black. that was from vbforums and these forums don't specify a font color.

so that is all there is too it.