Issue with alignment of span element in Chrome on Windows 8

It's a real head-scratcher...

The QA team found a bug that only shows up in Chrome on Windows 8. It's fine in all other browsers and operating systems. The issue is that the text inside a span element is dropping way below where it should be, almost the entire height of the element it's supposed to align with.

When I was working remotely, I decided to dig into it by installing Windows 8 on my iMac and installing the latest version of Chrome that was used for testing by QA. Strangely, I couldn't replicate the bug. Everything aligned perfectly no matter what screen resolution I tried.

Now that I'm back in the office, a QA team member handed me a Windows 8 laptop, and surprise, surprise - the text is misaligned again. This time, it's a Lenovo Ultrabook. The only difference I noticed was that it has a touch screen. But even after disabling the touch screen and confirming in the developer console that Chrome no longer detects it, the issue remained.

There were no browser add-ons installed on either version of Chrome.

What could be causing this? Here's the code snippet:

<div id="text_container">
    <span style="padding:0x;" class="textName" id="text_page">Problem Text Is Right Here</span>
</div>

Looking at the CSS for "text_container":

margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 1024px;

The "textName" class is defined with:

font-size: 10em;
margin-left: 1.55%;
opacity: 0.7;
position: absolute;
text-transform: uppercase;
top: 0.8em;

The #text_page id has no specific CSS rules set. Everything seems to display perfectly fine except on this one Windows 8 touch screen laptop running Chrome.

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Answer №1

Appreciate all the assistance, folks. Although the tips didn't quite work, I value the effort.

In any case, I managed to resolve the issue, and it turns out it was due to the font size being specified in "em". After two decades of working on web development, it's always a learning experience...

I typically use "px", but in this case, the font needed to be scalable, hence the use of "em". What caught me off guard was that "em" calculates itself based on the base font size, which in this case, was undefined, leading the browser to default to 16px as the base font size...

...except for Chrome on a Windows 8 laptop, where it was set to 24px due to the high screen resolution of 3200 x 1800. This explains why the issue only occurred on that specific device. Trying to replicate it on my iMac with a lower resolution proved unsuccessful.

To fix the problem, I adjusted the body's font-size attribute to 16px in the CSS.

Answer №2

It is possible that the vertical-align property on your span tag has not been set, causing it to default to "baseline".

As per the HTML specification, <span> is considered an inline element while <div> is a block element. Although you can alter this using the CSS display property, there is a limitation when it comes to HTML validation. It is not valid to place block elements within inline elements, like in the example below:

<span>...<div>foo</div>...</span>

Even if you change the <div> to inline or inline-block, it still does not meet the strict validation rules.

Therefore, if your element is inline or inline-block, opt for a <span>. If it is a block-level element, go for a <div>.

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