HTML Font questions

[sgreenway]

Hi, this is my first post and new to Actinic. I'm coding an information page in HTML. My question is how do I apply a font size to most of my text on the page. Rather than having to keep writing <p><font size="2" every time I want text, I would think it would be better to use a division. So that every time I use the <p> tag it would come out the size I have set for that div.

How do I use the <div> tags to use a font size from the CCS? (actsmall).
If I use a division, can you change the old line to display a different size or colour without it effecting the font size elsewhere in the division?

Thanks Sam

[pinbrook]

If the theme you have chosen is a css based theme, then locate the file called actinic.css

in the css file you will find statements defining text sixe

actregular, actsmall etc etc, apply these your text.

[jont]

Hi Sam,

as you are using the CSS at the moment you can set up <div> tags using a div identifier in the actinic.css eg: <div id="mytext"> and set the CSS statement accordingly, eg:

#mytext {
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #eee;
}

Rather than using <div> tags that can only be used once on a page you may be best using a class identifier eg:

.mytext {
font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #eee;
}

... and wrapping the text in a <span class="mytext"> accordingly

[sgreenway]

Hi, thanks for the replys.

I think I am going to try the <span> method. So if I understand correctly then I can replace the <p> tags with <span>. eg

<span class="actregular"> text goes here </span>

When using a <span class=""> tag, can you still use inline formating such as <br> or align="center"?

Cheers

[wjcampbe]

Once you create the class in css as Jont demonstrated, you can apply it to any tag, so the <p> would become <p class="myclass">.

You only need <span class="myclass"> when there is no other tag you can hang the formatting class onto.

[sgreenway]

Thanks,
I didn't realise you can add a class to a tag like that. Its starting to make sense now.

I'll give it a go.

Sam

[wjcampbe]

Sam,

Doing it on the <P> tag will affect the whole paragraph (everything up to the </p>). If you only want to change the first three words, you would use both tags like this

<p><span class="myclass"> First three words</span> rest of paragraph.</p>

Just thought I had better clear that up for anyone else reading this.

[sgreenway]

Thanks Bill