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| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 14:46 #338 | |
nroberts
227 posts |
Gents (and Ladies) Considering comments seen in the shout box and my personal experience in the tiny text in the shout box, I've been looking through the CSS styles in use. From what I can gather the issue with the text size is in the following part of /templates/lavinyav6/css/template.css [indent].inputbox { color: #666; font-size: 0.9em; }[/indent] In theory 0.9 em should be about 14 pixels tall. However in the case of the shout box text is showing up at 5 pixels in height. Query: Should we attempt to set this to a more reasonable size (say directly in pixels)? If so, I would suggest modifying the css (AFTER taking a backup copy) to: [indent].inputbox { color: #666; font-size: 10px; }[/indent] This would double the size of the written text without making it too big (the shout box isn't all that wide). I do however have a couple of niggling doubts which I'll continue to investigate (i.e. Is this style used elsewhere? Should the option be in creating a new style and using that instead?) Comments? Regards, Nicholas Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 14:46 #4748 | |
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nroberts
227 posts |
Gents (and Ladies) Considering comments seen in the shout box and my personal experience in the tiny text in the shout box, I've been looking through the CSS styles in use. From what I can gather the issue with the text size is in the following part of /templates/lavinyav6/css/template.css [indent].inputbox { color: #666; font-size: 0.9em; }[/indent] In theory 0.9 em should be about 14 pixels tall. However in the case of the shout box text is showing up at 5 pixels in height. Query: Should we attempt to set this to a more reasonable size (say directly in pixels)? If so, I would suggest modifying the css (AFTER taking a backup copy) to: [indent].inputbox { color: #666; font-size: 10px; }[/indent] This would double the size of the written text without making it too big (the shout box isn't all that wide). I do however have a couple of niggling doubts which I'll continue to investigate (i.e. Is this style used elsewhere? Should the option be in creating a new style and using that instead?) Comments? Regards, Nicholas Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 15:03 #4752 | |
Peter Bennet
5402 posts |
Do you mean the box where you enter the text- where it is too small; or the box where the message is displayed too; where I'd say it was about right- any bigger and you'd have a word a line. Peter I identify as half man half biscuit - crumbs! Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 15:09 #4753 | |
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Peter Bennet
5402 posts |
If I play around with the 'view' text size the shout box output stays the same size- but all the other text changes. Peter I identify as half man half biscuit - crumbs! Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 15:30 #4754 | |
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nroberts
227 posts |
Sorry Peter. Re-reading my post it's rather ambiguous. I'm refering to the text size when one writes a response in the shout box. Changing the text size improves the situation somewhat although it's rather uncomfortable to keep changing it up and down. Another (possible) improvement might be to change either the background to a lighter colour and/or darken the text (blacker). (A higher contrast). Font colour could be achieved by changing the *color* option as mentioned in my first post. I'll look into where the background gets defined. Regards, Nicholas Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 20:46 #4760 | |
Tallington
254 posts |
Peter, as Nicholas says, it certainly appears to just be the Inputbox CSS details that require changing. The font size AND the colour to be the same as the Output box above it! Ken Log in to reply |
| Shout Box Size 02/12/2009 at 23:01 #4767 | |
GeoffM
6376 posts |
I'll see (no pun intended) what I can do.
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| Shout Box Size 03/12/2009 at 03:15 #4771 | |
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Lardybiker
771 posts |
And the colour is such that it's almost impossible to read too.
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