akaalvin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
OK, I know I'm missing something very elementary here but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. When I use the visual editor and select say, 4 words of a 50 word post and want to apply the "Header 1" formatting (or any other that affects font size for that matter), it is applied to the entire post and not just the 4 words I seleceted. I check the html and sure enough, the end tag is at the end of the post and not at the end of the selected text as I would expect it to be.
I am not importing text and am writing it from scratch into the editor. This is consistently a problem on multiple sites for me so I know it must be me that isn't understanding something. Can someone please tell me what I'm missing?
I'm gonna guess here, but headers are for headers.... like a title, they are meant to me on their own line
If your text is all one block, it would assume you are applying the H1 tag to that whole block, up until the point where you hit enter.
I don't think that headers work inside paragraph per se....
akaalvin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks Rev., you are exactly right. I knew it was something so basic like this. SO, my follow up is this: is there a way to increase font size through the editor (without breaking up text line by line) or does it have to be hand coded in order to do this? And if it has to be hand coded, why is this not a feature of the editor or something a plugin can accomplish? This one is very strange to me. Thanks again Rev.
well, the visual editor is a very basic tool
A lot of people use only the html editor for such things, and apply spans to different text
talk talk talkity talk <span class="bigger">bigger test</span> normal text again
and then define the spans in style.css
.bigger {
font-size: 1.1em;
}
then you can define various font sizes in your css and apply it throughout as needed
Or I think other plugins offer text sizes in their editors.... like:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
akaalvin
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
many, many thanks for clearing this up for me.
sure thing! Lot's of new folks have difficulties with the visual editor. Hell, lots of experienced folks do to. It really is just a very basic tool.... not many options in it
