How do you change the font size??

Feb 182012

CS4….I know, couldnt be anymore basic! Im new to Dreamweaver but not web design. I cant find anywhere in DW or anywhere on the web and help files that tell how to do just a basic font size change. What little I do find seems to only refer to changing it in the CSS styles. I really dont want to have to deal with those. The page I am doing is just too simple and very basic. How do you change basic HTML font sizing?

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You can change font size using css or by simple HTML code:

HTML code:

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CSS Code:

.txtSize{font-size:16px} // class name

</style>

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Is there no longer a way to just highlight the text and type the size I want it to be in a box labeled “font size”?

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Window > Properties

On Properties Panel click on CSS (left hand side)

Here you can see “size” option as a drop down. Once you change the css a pop will open, enter selector Name as “txt” or any suitable name.

However, this will create the internal css, which can see above “</head>”.

Simple HTML code is:

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Highlight and to find the tag, then play with the css, you can send me a pm.

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HTML code:

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It would never be appropriate to use the font tag any more.

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I cant see why it wouldnt be used anymore. It seems inappropriate to have to hand code in a font size just to avoid using CSS. Realizing how much I miss FrontPage

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I cant see why it wouldnt be used anymore.

W3C deprecated its use in moving from HTML 3 to HTML 4. It’s unnecessary, especially when you consider you might be able to duplicate the effect of 100 font tags with a single simple CSS rule. And why not use such a simplistic approach when you can?

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We have talked about it and we both know that it can be used. I mean you saw the videos.

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It’s deprecated code and foolish to use under any circumstances.

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Realizing how much I miss FrontPage

Avoid WYSIWYG tools, remember that there is no WYSIWYG for Perl, JSP or C family.

Similarly people who use widgets are making mistakes, worst many of these people don’t understand Javascript.

You realize that the first 10% of Jquery code contains EcmaScript5 features plus it does not validates correctly and Jquery website say that it works on IE6.

The truth is EcmaScript5 on IE6 will be a catastrophe.

Oh font tag is more easier for Javascript manipulation and for older browser support.

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If browser developers remove font tag for newer browsers this means they are removing older HTML specifications but it does not matter since many people still use older browser, that you agree with me. I am for a wider audience.

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many people still use older browser

http://gs.statcounter.com shows the following global stats for August 2011 -

IE8 – 26%

FF5 – 10%

IE9 – 8%

FF3.6+ – 8%

IE7 – 5%

Chrome12 – 4%

IE6 – 3%

Safari5 – 2%

FF3.5 – .6%

Chrome8 – .1%

The total of those is 67%, and it’s the top 12. That means that any other specific browser version would be less than 0.1%. It’s completely misleading to state that “many people still use older browsers”. The decision to support such retrograde and antique browsers is a completely personal one – in general, however, the economics of that support do not justify the effort.

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Ok but for MLM industries and folks like me, even 1 single view matter.

I assume that you don’t understand more than the most experienced MLM guys how the whole MLM money making process works right.

Later I will give a business explanation why even 1 single view matter and it is even more important if it is from a miserable third world country which you might find unhuman, not unhuman for dollar billionaires.

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Hello Kelly(?),

after all these discussions, I’m not real sure about your concerns. You want to zoom a webpage continuously, like this we can often see? (Screenshots from German websites)

Header 1	Header 2

(“Schriftgröße ändern” means something like “change font size”)

Here is a link (as an example) to solve this: http://eriwen.com/javascript/change-text-size-onclick-with-javascript/. See “Here’s a simple example of this all put together.”

Hans-Günter

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I think the issue was much simpler – it was just how to change text size on the page without having to use code. OP simply wanted to enter a number in a field of the Property inspector and cause the text to change size.

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yeah that was it I got lost in all the answers and just gave up. Ill just accept that for whatever reason I dont agree with, its been removed. All the crazy senselessness and confusion involved in programming and web design is what made me get out of that field. Ill just stick to my true love…graphic design