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1. briandickson
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I find the text in the editor is very small, can someone tell me how to change this?

   I have tried changing various text options in the templates's style sheet, but I must be changing the wrong thing because changes are not reflected in the editor.

2. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   There is a line in wp-admin/wp-admin.css that reads body, td, textarea, input, select{. That is the one that controls the font size in the edit box, and obviously controls a lot else as well. Try this:

   function change_edit_font_size() {
     echo '<style type="text/css">
       div#editorcontainer textarea { font-size:20pt }
     </style>';
   }
   add_action('admin_print_styles','change_edit_font_size');

   You could edit the wp-admin.css file but you'll have work to do when you update WP. If you have a lot of changes to make a third option would be to load another stylesheet entirely.

3. briandickson
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks for the reply apljdi, but this didn't work for me, that is adding the font line to style sheet you mentioned.

   in wp-admin.css, I inserted a 'font-size: 18px' line in the following code:
   

   textarea,
   input,
   select {
   	border-width: 1px;
   	border-style: solid;
   	-moz-border-radius: 4px;
   	-khtml-border-radius: 4px;
   	-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
   	border-radius: 4px;
   	font-size: 18px;
   }
   
   input[type="checkbox"],
   input[type="radio"],
   input[type="image"] {
   	border: 0 none;
   }
   
   p,
   ul,
   ol,
   blockquote,
   input,
   select {
   	font-size: 12px;
   }

   nothing changed in my editor.

   I am running WP ver 2.8.5

4. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   That won't work. It will be overridden by the more specific div#editorcontainer textarea. That is the one you need to change.

   By the way, I just double checked it. The code I gave you works for me-- copied and pasted right from my earlier comment. Did you try that? It will save a little headache during upgrades.

5. briandickson
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   I would have tried your code, but it wasn't clear which file to append it to (I'm still fairly new to Wordpress), obviously not the themes' css.

6. apljdi
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   No. Not the theme's css. Put it in the theme's functions.php file. Create the functions.php if your theme doesn't have one.

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