^^Text overlap^^



The one screenshot shows the overlapping text on my phone and the other shows how it is supposed to look. How do I fix this? I tried the internet, but can’t seem to find an answer.

I fix it by rotating my iPhone 90°, then back to vertical. Works every time I encounter the irritating overlap.

I’ve been dealing with this same issue and have been fixing it the same way. The problem occurs in landscape mode and is eliminated by turning my phone vertically to portrait mode, then back to landscape mode. It seems to only happen on this forum, from what I can tell.

I get it in portrait as well if I swipe back into a thread. Turning the screen or refreshing the browser will make it go away, but those are work arounds. I’m hoping there’s a permanent fix.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
I fix it by rotating my iPhone 90°, then back to vertical. Works every time I encounter the irritating overlap.

I get the effect occasionally. Thanks for the how-to-fix tip, gearhounds.

What has already been said plus, what font size are you using. I see this happen on my wife’s phone from time to time. She’s sight impaired and has her font size jacked up, creating odd display issues like this.

I’ve got my iPhone display set to zoom mode (all the better to see with) and notice that some websites will truncate and/or overlap text that appears correctly if the iPhone’s display is reset to normal unzoomed. I like the bigger display so I just live with it. Landscape/portrait flipping won’t fix it when this is the cause.

I’m 95% sure it’s because SIGforum uses invalid markup in the underlying code. This causes the browser to
render in quirks mode.
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?s...935%2Fm%2F9600084984

This message has been edited. Last edited by: mark123,

I have no clue what you just said, but I didn’t start seeing this until I “upgraded” from iOS 14.8 to iOS 15.3 two days ago.

I’m glad to see this issue wasn’t just me, that’s been happening more and more here

I had to update my post because autocorrect made me sound like an absolute idiot. Autocorrect is getting weirder and weirder.

Are you using Safari? Perhaps Firefox????

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Originally posted by radioman:
Are you using Safari? Perhaps Firefox????

For me, the overlap happens on Safari and Brave. Both on iOS.

I’m thinking adding something as simple as a DOCTYPE to the header template may solve the issue.

From my reading the last few days, Apple requires all iOS browsers to use the same render engine which would explain the overlapping text happening in multiple browsers. It would probably explain why all the iOS browsers I tried use the same tile tabs instead of stacked tabs.

known issue to Apple

much more pronounced on the iPad mini. I saw an article this weekend of someone filing a class action suit against apple about it. Has to do with the screen refresh rate and sculling

What’s sculling??