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Q&A Why is HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Sometimes I use the HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from this post on EE.CD (red emphasi...

1 answer · posted 1y ago by Lorenzo Donati‭ · edited 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

Question bug support status-completed html

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Monica Cellio‭ · 2024-06-24T00:47:36Z (6 months ago)
This was fixed at some point as explained in the answer.

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#2: Post edited by

Lorenzo Donati‭ · 2023-08-11T07:01:12Z (over 1 year ago)

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Sometimes I use the HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from [this post on EE.CD](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289160/289161#answer-289161) (red emphasis mine):
>![text as it appears in post preview](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/q9gygp7b21wej8tabo8w55sphdw6)
However I noticed that in the actual post presentation that same text is rendered in a different way, in particular, there is no font size changes:
>![text as it appears in rendered post](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/8k7gf893y78m5hvrbrxuc2pns90r)
Is this a bug? Does it depend on my browser? Am I missing something?

Sometimes I use the `` HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from [this post on EE.CD](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289160/289161#answer-289161) (red emphasis mine):
>![text as it appears in post preview](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/q9gygp7b21wej8tabo8w55sphdw6)
However I noticed that in the actual post presentation that same text is rendered in a different way, in particular, there is no font size changes:
>![text as it appears in rendered post](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/8k7gf893y78m5hvrbrxuc2pns90r)
Is this a bug? Does it depend on my browser? Am I missing something?

#1: Initial revision by

Lorenzo Donati‭ · 2023-08-11T06:56:47Z (over 1 year ago)

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Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview?

Sometimes I use the <small> HTML tag to reduce the impact of some collateral part of a text, and in the preview this is nice and dandy. Here is an example from [this post on EE.CD](https://electrical.codidact.com/posts/289160/289161#answer-289161) (red emphasis mine):

<br>

>![text as it appears in post preview](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/q9gygp7b21wej8tabo8w55sphdw6)

<br>

However I noticed that in the actual post presentation that same text is rendered in a different way, in particular, there is no font size changes:

<br>

>![text as it appears in rendered post](https://meta.codidact.com/uploads/8k7gf893y78m5hvrbrxuc2pns90r)

<br>

Is this a bug? Does it depend on my browser? Am I missing something?

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