I want to have all the displayed messages use a proper-sized readable font size. The replies are shown smaller than the first node. I want to show all the nodes in the same (optimum) settings.

I went to display settings, and could not find anything for that. I thought to use the custom CSS rules section, but when I took a peek at the html, I found that all the reply node text used FONT tags inside each paragraph, not CSS.

Is there a proper, simple, elegant way to change that setting?

—John

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Re: Text size customization
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 31, 2008 at 21:00 UTC

    There's no doubt that we should be effecting such stylistic control via CSS... but I question the point in dinking with the font sizes in the first place. I'd like to see every kind of page element given a class name, and eliminate every occurrence of <font> setting in the code.

    Until that's done, you could probably set up some JS in your Free Nodelet to actively change the <font>'s attributes after page load.

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      Why dink with the font sizes? Because I want to see all messages at a good size for readability, not some larger some smaller.

      I agree, we should not use font settings, but CSS. Anyone who knows how that works that might be persuaded to do something?

      It sounds like the Free Nodelet idea would be identical to using Greasemonkey, only would work anywhere I browse logged-in.

      —John

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        Why dink with the font sizes? Because I want to see all messages at a good size for readability, not some larger some smaller.

        I didn't mean you, I meant the folks who hardcoded the <font size="-1">.

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Re: Text size customization
by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 01, 2008 at 16:55 UTC

    Yes, but it's not easy to find. The incantation that works for me from my user CSS is this. 

    tr.reply-body ul.indent font[size="2"] { font-size: 100% }

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      Awesome, thanks!

      Interesting that the absolute size of 2 is what is matched, when the tag actually has -1.

      —John

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        The tags this matches for me have size 2, not size -1. Either you're looking at the wrong font tags, or you have have some settings changed to different from me, or the rule is wrong and it's actually some other css rule that's fixed the reply sizes for me.

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