I am trying (per NightOwl's request) to change (increase) the font size in the Post/Reply box/window.

No luck yet. See here for details:

http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?num=1196034841

Lemme know if you notice/experience any weirdness.

Test. Still small. Looks smaller than 11-px, if you ask me.

Test.

In the Reply box field, I can see just above where it *says* Verdana 14 (with a drop-down menu option), but the font size that I use to *type* with is still small.

oh my.

now the *display* font is 14-point Verdana.

that's not what i wanted.

but do you have any preferences regarding this change?

Changed the 14-px to 12.

here is the controlling code from "view source":


Code:

<td width="77%" class="windowbg2">        <textarea name="message" rows="8" cols="70" id="message" style="height: 166px; width: 550px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px; margin: 0px; visibility: visible;" onclick="javascript:storeCaret(this);" onkeyup="javascript:storeCaret(this);" onchange="javascript:storeCaret(this);" tabindex="4"></textarea>        <br /></td>

I think the size of this font may be controlled by JavaScript, cuz it looks smaller than 11-px Verdana. Looks more like 9 to me.

Rad

Here's the style sheet code that is supposed to change the size of the font in the *text area* (it also changes the text area background to *yellow* and not white):


Code:

textarea {      font-size: 20px;      font-weight: normal;      font-style: normal;      text-decoration: none;      font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;      color: #000000;      background-color: #ffff00;      border: 1px solid #B1BDC9; }

I'm copying this from the *Admin/Forum Layout/Style Sheet/Source* coding page for the *TestDefault_large* style sheet template.

If you go to your Profile, and select *Modify* and look under either *Options*.  Type something in  the *Signature* text box if you do not already have something there.  Now select the forum template *TestDefault_large* from the *What template would you like to use?*  You will see a dramatic change in the text font size in that *Signature* box!

But, that same change has no effect on the text box for typing one's reply to a forum thread!  Why?

amish


Quote:

here is the controlling code from "view source":

I think the coding you are referring to is *over-riding* the style sheet coding with this font size:


Code:

<td width="77%" class="windowbg2">        <textarea name="message" rows="8" cols="70" id="message" style="height: 166px; width: 550px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px; margin: 0px; visibility: visible;"

http://radified.com/gfx2/forum_fonts.gif

You can see from the above screen shot that the reply window text is SMALLER than 10-pixel Verdana (taken from an email in Outlook Express .. compared side-by-side with the reply window).

I don't have access to an 11-px font in O/E, or I would've included that for comparison.

Actually O/E doesn't specify whether the units are points or pixels, but there's not much difference anyway. (Pixels are what I would expect.)

well, this text is obviously not being controlled by the post.pl file cuz i tweaked it ..

.. according to reply #2 posted here:

http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?num=1188583813

and that change didn't do anything.

i think the font size for that particular window is being controlled by javascript, cuz the "view-source-code" says

it's size = 11, but the actual font (to me) looks more like 9. I mean, 11px Verdana is very easy to see.

The WYSIWYG editing interface for MovableType blogging software is controlled by TinyMCE, a JavaScript applet,

and I had to tweak THAT in order to tweak my WYSIWYG editing interface, which is very similar to the reply

interface/window used by the forum.

I just don't know WHICH javascript is controlling the reply textfield. I haven't yet learned JavaScript.

Maybe someone will come along at the YaBB forums and help us.

[Amish is me in SeaMonkey.]

Rad

Thanks for your efforts--here I thought it would be an *easy fix*!  Silly me--we're talking computers and program coding, aren't' we  ;) !!!

What really bugs me is that the style sheet template change works fine on those two text boxes in the *Profile* area--I'm assuming this must be a *bug* in the forum software programing!

Maybe we should file a *bug* report to the developers!  Seems like if they put that option in the Admin area, they intended to have it control the font size in *all* the text boxes--especially the *Reply* message text box--but, again we're talking program coding--I could be all wrong!