Anyone familiar with this MS Edge "zoom problem"?

Around 2015 I made a site using Foundation that still looks ok in most browsers (AFAIK).

When some 15 months ago, I finally got Win 10 and MS Edge, it initially looked fine there too. A few updates into MS Edge, the site started to look as if I was zoomed in, with some parts refusing to zoom. I’ve often checked and my zoom is at 100%. I mainly care that it looks good at 100%.

I’ve since lost touch a bit with web dev. I’m not asking to check my CSS mess, but if you are aware if this is either a setting in MS Edge that I can change, or if my CSS needs important changes for MS Edge to display it properly at 100%?

On top is how it should look. Bottom is what MS Edge makes of it at 100%. (Help lines are only to indicate it’s keeping my “90s background” graphic at its proper size, but for some reason is zooming in the rest…)

I don’t know Edge too well, but what you show looks like “Zoom text only” which is a zoom option in Firefox. It will scale text up, while leaving pixel based elements like images the same size. But I don’t think Edge has that option.

It looks the same on my edge and chrome.

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The logo is a pixel based jpg too. That one gets enlarged, but the ads on the right not. I guess it all depends how I set it up in css.

TYVM, Paul. That gives me some relief. The only things I can think of is that I accidentally hit some kind of setting in MS Edge, or that it needs some code from Windows updates, which I disabled more than a year ago (My PC is >15 years old and it couldn’t take some of the updates). Hope to get a new one this year :slight_smile:

Just to show I’m on 100% …

I’ve also looked at “Site permissions / Zoom levels” and the site is not listed as an exception there.

Have you accidentally set the large font setting?

In edge go to settings, appearance and scroll down to fonts. It should say medium(recommended).

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Indeed, that’s what somehow happened. It might have a shortcut I hit…

Thanks so much, Paul! :slight_smile:

(I can’t find back if I have to mark this [SOLVED] or not. It’s been a while…)

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No that’s fine. It should be obvious to anyone who reads the thread properly that its solved :slight_smile:

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