HI,
I am trying to increase the text size of the general body text, but cant find it anywhere. Any ideas?

usually I find it in the general section


CAnt post full CSS file here as its too long, copied it to

http://textsave.de/?p=28895

please look and help me with this, I've wasted over an hour scowering the code

Just set a size in a stylesheet

body {
   font-size:1em;
}

please look and help me with this, I've wasted over an hour scowering the code

There is TWO instance of the body font size being set in the first 20 or so lines.


or are you looking for a text-size rule?

not working. also tried changing height from 20 - 25 but that just changed the spacing between lines

maybe I am adding it to the wrong section?

/* ——- 2. General ——- */

body{color:#666;font-size:12px;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,th,blockquote,.top_metadata,.dat e,.cancel-comment-reply a,#blurb,.bottom_metadata,span.current_crumb,

12px ISN'T very big.

Excellent. Thanks. fixed.

forgot to try my usual trick of measuring the font size in an image editor then searching the css for that size.

changed it to 16

The more complicated answer is that setting font sizes involves not only the mechanics of doing so, but also the advisability of various approaches. For example, if you set all of your text with pixels, you could prevent many users from being able to resize the text (see the entry Force Font Size. Some authors argue that text should not be free to be resized anyway, nor should it be based on the user's default font size (which many designers dismiss as being "way too big and ugly"). The flip side of the debate holds that the user's default settings should always be honored, and that while text can be sized, it should be sized relative to the user's settings. This school of thought, which advocates the use of percentage and em-based font-size values, points out the inherent accessibility advantages of relatively-sized text, which can be easily resized by the user.

h1 {font-size: 150%;
h2 {font-size: 1.5em;} /* same as 150% -- see [[ Using Ems ]] */
h3 {font-size: 18px;} /* a bad idea! see [[ Using Pixels ]] */
h4 {font-size: 12pt;} /* a bad idea! see [[ Using Points ]] */
h5 {font-size: 1ex;} /* approximately same as 0.5em */

nah, old outdated information.

firefox, internet explorer 8, safari, opera all use whole page zoom, which is why they zoom the images as well. so you can zoom in just fine on all pages.

using default text size is far far from common practice. My websites get over 400,000 unique visitors a month and havent had any requests for better usability.