Dynamic font size, possible?

[nickatwork]

Hi all,
Just wondering if, somewhere tucked away in Flare, there is the ability to make font size adjustable for an end user?
I'm publishing to WebHelp and quite like the smaller font size, but I'm sure there are users who wont. Would be nice to cater for everyone with a user selected font size.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nick

[lacastle]

if you use a percentage-based font size in your CSS, your users should be able to adjust the size of their fonts in their browser. (ctrl, + or - in firefox)

[nickatwork]

Not quite what I'm after. You can do that without using % font sizes. But it increases everything on the page. Buttons, images etc. I just want to change the font size. This forum has a font size control top right under the search box. Something like that would work.

[LTinker68]

What you're looking for isn't something that's native to Flare or stylesheets, but it can be done using JavaScript. A quick Google search turned up this article -- http://davidwalsh.name/change-text-size ... javascript. I haven't tested it, but it's an example of how it could be done. You'd want to put the script in the masterpage so it's available to every topic. I'm not sure if the best way to tie it into the front-end for the user. Probably a couple of new buttons you'd add to the toolbar that calls the script and passes the values.

If you do something like this, you'd need to modify your stylesheet so all font sizes are based on relative values, and that means you might also have to specify font sizes where you didn't before, because the browser default is to decrease font sizes the deeper you go in the tag structure. For instance, a list item inside another list is generally smaller font than the parent list. In that case, you'd need to set the <li> tag to a font size of 100%, so it always matched the parent font size.

You also need to test this thoroughly at the different font sizes, because larger fonts might move other elements on the page or compress them together and smaller font sizes might space things out too much.