# Typography looks fine in Elements preview but not in local web preview **URL:** \ **Category:** Elements\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070 "2025-09-16T18:27:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/1 "2025-09-16T18:27:17Z")
> **[Browser Formatting Issues in Typography Preview](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/discourse-ai/ai-bot/shared-ai-conversations/K2ockkTSQZYlvj8BpTm0xg)** > > Jupeman: Using Typography, things look fine in the immediate preview but when I preview to browser the wrong formatting appears. Why? I asked the bot above. Here’s a the project: [elementsapp://downloadDocument/9PXDBxUexytY](elementsapp://downloadDocument/9PXDBxUexytY) Used Typography and set styles. Looks fine in Elements preview, but when previewing in browser locally, it is not right at all. I don’t understand why or even how to start…. (this project is now failing to upload to my server, too - yet another new problem - so I haven’t been able to see if the problem replicates there) ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/2 "2025-09-16T18:36:13Z")
Don’t worry, we’ll help get you back up and running. First of all, can you show me how it looks in Elements, and how it looks when previewed in the Browser? ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/3 "2025-09-16T19:03:40Z")
Elements preview: ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/1/c1c1a69810a2efa2c69fcebcdf2a90c04ae73205.jpeg) Local web preview: ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/1/4/14e7151bf540caed437ea1d302530127ee6c9ae5.jpeg) and here is the one that really is killing me, web server “live” (all content gone, now just the menu): ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/7/3/7374779a2a0af1b6a9a6cd2d3a436071a3e09d0f.png) (see at [https://alpha.gencryo.com](https://alpha.gencryo.com)) ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/4 "2025-09-16T19:11:02Z")
Elements preview: ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/1/c1c1a69810a2efa2c69fcebcdf2a90c04ae73205.jpeg) Local web preview: ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/1/4/14e7151bf540caed437ea1d302530127ee6c9ae5.jpeg) and here is the one that really is killing me, web server “live” (all content gone, now just the menu): ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/7/3/7374779a2a0af1b6a9a6cd2d3a436071a3e09d0f.png) (see at [https://alpha.gencryo.com](https://alpha.gencryo.com)) A little more detail on the web server: the project was 3012 files. 3011 would upload and then one would fail. This was a new problem today, but I don’t know which was the single file failing. I deleted the entire directly contents and republished all files successfully. That’s when everything went blank except the menu. Permissions looks right, but maybe they’re not. I use Cloudflare, but am in development mode, no cache. I’ve checked three different computers, all show the same (not a local cache issue…) ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/5 "2025-09-16T19:23:11Z")
Okay, this is all fixable, don’t panic! The Typography component is styled using Markdown Syntax, so you’d do something like this in your markdown file (not try and style it inline in Elements). ```auto # H1 Heading ## H2 Heading Paragraph of text. ``` If you want to style a single block of text in Elements, you should probably just use the Text Component. > [@Jupeman](#): > > and here is the one that really is killing me, web server “live” (all content gone, now just the menu): Have you checked your server meets the requirements? > **[System Requirements | RapidWeaver Elements Docs](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/cms/getting-started/system-requirements)** > > Basic requirements for running Elements CMS on your server **Edit:** can you export the project locally and then manually upload the project using Transmit (or similar). See if that works. Hope that all makes sense, and let me know how you get on! ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/6 "2025-09-16T19:38:48Z")
So these controls in Elements are meaningless (these are what I set that change the preview by selecting text within the Typography component ←- what’s their purpose)? ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/a/3/a3889f34220f16f677e966b775e82555e6f858c2.png) Server: it had been running the site fine up until today (I upgraded to 1.3 this morning, export issue started then, export works after deleting and starting over, but now the site doesn’t…. I can certainly export locally and try Transmit and see what works at each step). ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/7 "2025-09-16T19:56:20Z")
@dan Exporting locally and moving to server via Transmit works (in progress shows correctly for what I’ve done so far). What might that mean for publishing in 1.3? ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/8 "2025-09-16T20:55:32Z")
> [@Jupeman](#): > > So these controls in Elements are meaningless (these are what I set that change the preview by selecting text within the Typography component ←- what’s their purpose)? No of course not, this is just when using the CMS. ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/9 "2025-09-16T20:57:04Z")
> [@Jupeman](#): > > Exporting locally and moving to server via Transmit works (in progress shows correctly for what I’ve done so far). What might that mean for publishing in 1.3? Sounds like all the updated files were’t published. If you run that issue again, you can try using the “Re-Publish All Files” menu option. ![CleanShot 2025-09-16 at 9 .56.19@2x](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/0/2/02fe7b112fb01c72b439171956fb5566171b2440.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/10 "2025-09-17T16:19:19Z")
Interesting, sorry, lack of understanding on my part on the sequence of how things work behind the scenes. Not a case of “pull in text and format to the component” as much as “pull in formatted text”. Makes sense when you can’t format text when you can’t see it until it is pulled in via CMS! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Jupeman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@Jupeman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Jupeman)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/typography-looks-fine-in-elements-preview-but-not-in-local-web-preview/51070/11 "2025-09-17T16:20:32Z")
Yup, did this quite a bit (deleted all files, re-published all a few times), didn’t work. Downloading locally and pushing over to the server via Transmit worked and now re-publishing is working. 🤷‍♂️