Text size

[Dorian]

Hi all,

I have been using the default text size in Actinic V9 (11 I think) and after some feedback from my customers have decided to make it larger - say 12. (I have searched under "Actinic Community Font Sizes" and not come up with anything relevant to the oddity I am encountering). To do this I went to Settings; Site Options; Default Text Size and changed this from 11 to 12.

However, some of the font sizes on my home page have now jumped to 16 - where others haven't changed at all. Some of my text I had already changed to 12 by manually doing this at the relevant section (i.e. !!<<span style='font-size: 12px;'>>!!example!!<</span>>!!) - might this be causing a problem? I know I probably shouldn't have done it this way, but now that I want to move to a larger font, I have an opportunity to fix this.

Many thanks for any advice - and recommendations on what default font size people use? I sell green products, gifts and gadgets and a large proportion of my audience seem to want me to make the text larger!

Dorian.

[jont]

Declaring pixels (px) for font-sizes is a fixed unit and not scalable - quite how others are being scaled due to this one change is strange. Have you loaded the site into Firefox with the Fire Bug or Web Developer extension installed and view the CSS and source code? That is a good starter to track what is happening.

If you are sure it is 16px open the actinic.css file contained in the PreviewHTML folder and search for that size and see which class is declaring it.

[jont]

Is it the hardcoded sizes that are changing? It could be if these are malfomed and a style in the actinic.css is over riding these further down the line.

[leehack]

If a fixed px size is specified, you can then set % sizes from that, so if body tag was 12px for example, you could then set another element to be 130% size and that would give you something like 16px. It's a tactic often used on H tags so they are all a set size bigger than the main font, you can then change the main font size and all adjust to suit, perhaps you have something like this in place?

[jont]

Looking at the actinic.css on his homepage link all the font-size declarations with a % are set at 100% or fixed with px

[Dorian]

Thanks for the tips so far.
Jont - I can show you what happens by publishing it with the larger text - just for a short while, if that might help?

[fuzzie bear]

I was having the same problem and it was because I was typing in 12 instead of 12px - not sure if this is something you could be doing ??

[Dorian]

Thanks Fuzzy Bear - I just tried that.
O.K. so now I don't get the fonts appearing as 16 (so that worked - thanks!) but all of my product sections are still only showing up as 10 or 11.
I'll keep at it and try making some new pages and see how they turn out.
Thanks for everyone's advice so far,
Dorian.