When I change the font used on my wiki to Times New Roman, it seems tiny in comparison with Arial... what is the best way to increase the font size slightly throughout the whole wiki? Thanks.
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Thanks. I'd read that and it didn't help me, either with Vector or the main skin I use, Foreground. I'll try again though.
P.S. I've now asked the question on the Foreground skin talk page at Topic:Win59vfzm0kkpukv.
I compromised and used Georgia in the end. It has serifs, which I want, but is about the same size as Arial so I won't need to adjust any CSS.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-size
If you added something like that and it didnt take affect it could be something else in the skin overriding it. Browser dev tools can be helpful in that situation.
Thanks. I'd tried that but wasn't able easily to increase the font consistently across the website. I probably could have done with stacks of lines of CSS but it didn't seem worth it.
The odd things was that when I just changed the font everything worked out at 16px (as before with Arial), but when I compared it with a plain 1990s website with Times New Roman also at 16px the text on the wiki was somehow smaller. To make it a bit bigger I was having to use font-size em/rem values to increase the px, but it was hard to change it consistently across the different elements of the website.
can i use different fonts?
"can i use different fonts?" Yes, you could just use font-family for the relevant things, in MediaWiki:Common.css.
Ok, thanks.
This may belong elsewhere, however.
I'm tying to create a Sidebar and want to change the size of the font in the sidebar. How do you specify the size of the font for the words you're typing.
eg:
'| Flag = Cago
[ [ File:Test_Image.png|50px ] ]
Golden Griffon of Law in White Circle<break
holding two lightning bolts on<break
a red background
So the words Golden Griffon... I'd like them in font size say 8 so they are small. How do I do that?
Thanks,
Karl
Its better to start a new thread than tack on to an existing one,but:
<span style="font-size: 8px">Golden Griffon</span>
On a related matter, for some time now (maybe years, I don't know) all WMF wikis have a "glasses" icon at the top right, left of the alerts icon. This opens a popup menu with some nice options, mostly (for me at least) the color related ones. How is this enabled? I can't find any obvious extension in Special:Version that implements this.