Floatbox window very small on page

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Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 81
On this URL:

http://www.rasdalestamps.com/auction_browse.asp?auction=423&majgroup=COLLECTIONS%2C+ACCUMULATIONS%2C+STOCK&mingroup=United+States&startlot=837

Click the first couple of images next to Lot 837. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., are very small on my screen. Do you know what would cause this? The actual images are very large.

Thank you.
Administrator
Registered: Aug 2008
Posts: 3382
It's the aggressively large title attributes which are also being used as the source for the floatbox captions. Both the titleAsCaption and autoFit options default to true. When fitting the box to the screen, both the caption and the image have to squeeze down proportionately until they fit. Really big captions like that can never fit because as the box gets narrower, the caption gets taller due to more wrapping. Finally, autofit gives up, discards the caption, and shows itself at the last attempted sizing.

The captions are really only suitable for short text snippets, not paragraphs. I think you need to set titleAsCaption to false and either not have captions, or assign short ones directly to the caption option. Alternatively, you could set autoFit to false, but then the users would have to scroll to see all the image and the multiple lines of caption text.
Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Posts: 81
Thanks!

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