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I just re-opened a website I'm developing, and my submit buttons are freaking out!

I really don't have any idea what happened, and rather than root around the 20+ components I've been working on, I thought I'd ask the experts first.

What can cause this? Any ideas?

What's going on!?

+3  A: 

Are you using Firefox? Does that button call for Helvetica in its CSS? Do you have Helvetica installed on your system? If the answers to those questions are "yes," then I know your problem. Try reinstalling Helvetica and rebooting.

EDIT: Try looking at the headlines on Smashing Magazine. They use Helvetica. I had this problem before, and it looked like this:


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Kerrick
You're the man. It wasn't helvetica, it was Arial...but the solution worked.
Kevin Brown
+1 Hah, you're really the Man Kerrick! Does anybody have any background info on why this happens?
Pekka
Hahaha, seriously! Well done. :)
Kevin Brown