Font size in p style changes when adding a link (WebHelp)

gfevrier · Post by **gfevrier** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:29 am

The p style in our stylesheet is 8 pt font size. However, when he insert a hyperlink in a topic to another topic, the hyperlink changes to 10 pt, and we don't want the font size to change. In our stylesheet, every Link Style is font-size is 8 pt. Why is Flare changing the font size? Is there any way to prevent Flare from changing it?

Post by **LTinker68** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:25 am

Are you actually using a hyperlink or a xref? Xrefs are a different tag in the authoring environment, although they resolve to href tags in online output.

gfevrier · Post by **gfevrier** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:39 pm

This is how the topic link looks in the text editor in Flare:

<li>Customize your <a href="../../Homepage_Preferences.htm">user preferences</a> to

I selected the text "user preferences" and linked to the topic "Homepage_preferences". The link text font size is larger than the rest of the text.

Attached is a screenshot of how it looks in the WebHelp.

Thanks!

Gina

Post by **LTinker68** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 3:28 pm

gfevrier wrote:<li>Customize your <a href="../../Homepage_Preferences.htm">user preferences</a> ...

Your first post said your style is 8pt but you're using an <li> tag here, not a tag. The <li> tag does not inherit from the tag -- it inherits from the <ul> or <ol> tag, which in turn inherit from the <body> tag (generally). What font size are your ul/ol or li tags set to? Is your body tag set to 8pt or something else?

Post by **SteveS** » Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:09 pm

Have you tried styling the anchor (<a>) tag?

gfevrier · Post by **gfevrier** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:03 pm

LTinker68 wrote:
gfevrier wrote:<li>Customize your <a href="../../Homepage_Preferences.htm">user preferences</a> ...
Your first post said your style is 8pt but you're using an <li> tag here, not a tag. The <li> tag does not inherit from the tag -- it inherits from the <ul> or <ol> tag, which in turn inherit from the <body> tag (generally). What font size are your ul/ol or li tags set to? Is your body tag set to 8pt or something else?

The ul and ol tags are set to 8 pt, and so is the body tag.

gfevrier · Post by **gfevrier** » Wed Aug 22, 2012 12:07 pm

SteveS wrote:Have you tried styling the anchor (<a>) tag?

The a tags are all 8 pt already (see attached screenshot).
It looks like I'll have to manually set the font size in the topics.
Thanks.

Post by **SteveS** » Thu Aug 23, 2012 4:30 pm

Looking at the styles and naming convention I've got to ask if this is a word import.

gfevrier · Post by **gfevrier** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:34 am

SteveS wrote:Looking at the styles and naming convention I've got to ask if this is a word import.

It's not a Word import. I inherited this project so I don't know exactly why there are so many styles.

Post by **Nita Beck** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:01 am

This is just a guess...

Your screenshot of the stylesheet editor shows that you're editing the non-print medium, rather than the default medium. Do you have your target set up to use the non-print medium? If it's set up to use the default medium, then it's not looking at the 8pt settings in the non-print medium. Might that be the root cause of your problem?

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