Italic, bold stripped by mobile

  • I’m building a new site with Twentytwelve, and I just noticed that most text styling (EXCEPT underlining) is stripped when the site displays on a mobile device. Boldface and italic and so forth are all there when the pages are viewed on a PC, but when you look at them on a mobile they all disappear.

    For instance, on https://www.galbraithmt.com/guide/, the words “use on the trail with your smartphone” and “Free Beta” are boldfaced, but they don’t show bold on a mobile.

    I have tried every conceivable way of coding bold and italic (starting with the bold and italic buttons on the WP post pages), but nothing works.

    How can I get bold and italic in Twentytwelve on a mobile device? Really appreciate your help…

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  • Thread Starter astoni

    (@astoni)

    In the following line in twentytwelve on a mobile device, the underlining displays, but the bold face does not. Something must be happening in the CSS, but I can’t get any handle on it from using the Firefox Inspector or Firebug…

    The all new 2014 <span style="text-decoration: underline;">GalbaithMt.com</span> is now designed exclusively for <span style="font-weight: bold;">use on the trail with your smartphone. </span>

    Also ran 45 minutes of searches without any luck. Does anybody know where in the CSS the mobile font display is controlled? Would really like to get bold and italic on Twentytwelve mobile! Thanks for your help…

    Thread Starter astoni

    (@astoni)

    The plot thickens. Turns out the non-display of italics is a known problem with Chrome on Android on the Samsung Galaxy S3 (that’s what I was testing on). There’s a tech note about the problem at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=169446 and an Android italic test page at https://sites.google.com/site/chrometexttest/.

    However, the browser in my Samsung Galaxy S3 does not display any text styling in Twentytwelve mobile EXCEPT underline…

    Thread Starter astoni

    (@astoni)

    And there’s more! Just looked at the site in question on a friend’s Samsung Galaxy S3 (in other words, the same phone I have), and ALL the text styling (bold, italic, size modifications) displayed perfectly on her S3, but not mine. Wha?

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