font size change

[Noelb]

Hey all,

Is there a way to global alter the default article text font size?
Preferably without editing a template? I think this would be a good option in configuration
(using default template)

- or I could really be going blind and have missed it

Thanks

[Don Chambers]

Font size is determined by the theme you are using. You can alter this by modifying the theme, or providing a user stylesheet that alters the font.

[yellowled]

Is there a way to global alter the default article text font size?

Yes, by using something called CSS (there is no way anyone could ever explain CSS in a forum post). The easiest and most fail-safe way to do that is by adding a new file called user.css to your theme's directory (/templates/<YOUR_THEME>/). That file will not be deleted or overwritten in case of an update.

I think this would be a good option in configuration

No. font-size will always be a theme-related value, it does not make sense to set that in the blog configuration. Setting it via CSS is very easy and much more flexible than a blog (or theme) option could ever be.

YL

[Noelb]

Is there a way to global alter the default article text font size?

Yes, by using something called CSS (there is no way anyone could ever explain CSS in a forum post). The easiest and most fail-safe way to do that is by adding a new file called user.css to your theme's directory (/templates/<YOUR_THEME>/). That file will not be deleted or overwritten in case of an update.

I think this would be a good option in configuration

No. font-size will always be a theme-related value, it does not make sense to set that in the blog configuration. Setting it via CSS is very easy and much more flexible than a blog (or theme) option could ever be.

YL

sending it in CSS is asking for it to be squashed on updates, no?
perhaps then the themes configuration should have this setting


(sorry for delay I am still not getting emails from the board on followups)

[yellowled]

sending it in CSS is asking for it to be squashed on updates, no?

Not if you override the theme's font-size in a user.css as described above. Because the user.css file is not part of the s9y core, it will not get overwritten in an update.

So for example if your theme sets a font-size of 16px on the body element in its style.css, you can create a /templates/<YOUR_THEME>/user.css and in there write

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body {
    font-size: 20px;
}

Due to something that's called "the CSS cascade" (basically, the user.css gets read after the style.css), that will override the theme's setting.

YL

[Noelb]

sending it in CSS is asking for it to be squashed on updates, no?

Not if you override the theme's font-size in a user.css as described above. Because the user.css file is not part of the s9y core, it will not get overwritten in an update.

So for example if your theme sets a font-size of 16px on the body element in its style.css, you can create a /templates/<YOUR_THEME>/user.css and in there write

Code: Select all

body {
    font-size: 20px;
}

Due to something that's called "the CSS cascade" (basically, the user.css gets read after the style.css), that will override the theme's setting.

YL

Thanks, creating this and setting it to 18px seems to be good