Help me, Obi-wan Kenobi!

[kelliem]

I just changed my journal style and have no clue how to change my font size. I am old and blind and need a larger font! I tried the FAQ and am now hopelessly confused. Any LJ CSS gurus (guri?) amongst you who could walk me through it?

Comments

[grey853.livejournal.com]

Oh, my, that is hard to read. Not only is the text small, but it's white on a dark background which is hell on old eyes. Don't have a clue how to fix it, though. Sorry.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I actually like the light letters on dark background, it's why I chose this style. It's high-contrast which works well for me. It's just the font size I'd like to change.

[grey853.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons I like the option to read everything in my own style. It makes it so much easier for the reader. It's one of the things that LJ has changed that really works, unlike the new profile page which is a step back, IMO.

Two suggestions...

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

1) The easier of the two: make the font larger in your browser--the only thing that looks terribly tiny to me is the tags section, and that's based on tag usage (and is not adjustable).

2.) Under the LJ main page, under Journal, choose Customize Journal. Some journals are more customizable than others. If you don't see any choices on the left side, like for Style then Fonts and Font Size, look for Custom CSS. Based on a quick refresher on CSS font definitions, you might be able to get away with adding this in the Custom CSS box:

body {font-size:larger}
div {font-size:larger}
p {font-size:larger}

(See the page for other values for 'font-size'.)

Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that your settings will override the page's.

Hope this helps.

Re: Two suggestions...

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

The CSS seems to work! Yay! I had to limit it to the body text, since it made the headers too big otherwise, but that's fine with me, that's the important part!

Now, how would I increase the boldness? I looked up the element on the site you linked and it looked like maybe something like: body (FontWeight=bold) might work but it doesn't.

Re: Two suggestions...

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

Syntax is a little off. Should be the curly brackets, a dash and a colon. Also, combine settings like so:

body { font-size:larger; font-weight:bold }

:)

Re: Two suggestions...

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! It worked! Yay II!

Re: Two suggestions...

[shiningmoon.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

So glad to be useful!