The capital W for arial font gets cut off

**JRoC** · 12-19-2005 01:52 PM

Has anyone else seen this? When I use the Arial font at certain sizes, the left edge of the capital letter W gets cut off. Please see attachments to see what I am talking about. This is static HTML text, nothing special about it. Is this a known issue and are there any fixes besides changing the font size?

Thanks
JRoC

**_Aerospace_Eng_** · 12-19-2005 02:37 PM

I've seen it before, just didn't really take to it. Can you post the html you are using? I've been trying to replicate what you are seeing but can't.

**JRoC** · 12-20-2005 08:18 AM

I think I have narrowed it down to when this problem occurs. The capital W gets cut off in this scenario:

The text has to be inside a table. The font is Arial and a size of 11px. The W gets cut off when the table has cellpadding=0. The W is ok if you change cellpadding=1 (anything but 0). Sample HTML below.

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body>
<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><span class="style1">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style2">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style3">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style4">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style5">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<table width="300" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td><span class="style1">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style2">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style3">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style4">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span class="style5">What is happening to the capital W.</span></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

**Fang** · 12-20-2005 09:01 AM

Probably this: http://positioniseverything.net/expl...rstletter.html

**felgall** · 12-20-2005 02:13 PM

See if the problem occurs in recent web browsers.

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