Does Opus Browser object ignore certain html style settings

Lar_123 · **Posted:** April 29th, 2010, 11:03 am

I cannot seem to get a Browser object to display a larger font. I am simply using inline styling in some simple .html files. I can edit the html and change the font colour (color), but not the font size.

These different attempts have no effect:
font-size: 2.6em;
font-size: 250%;
font-size: 20pt;

All I want to do is set the size in the html file, not alter size at runtime. (although if the User had Ctrl_+/Ctrl_- that would help a bit/workaround).

Any ideas?

Roger Dunton · **Posted:** April 29th, 2010, 2:47 pm

Hi Larry

Try adding something like the following to the html code:

<font size="2" face="Verdana">
</font>

Obviously, you'll need to change the number and typeface according to your preference.

Regards

Roger

Lar_123 · **Posted:** April 29th, 2010, 11:52 pm

Thanks Roger.

So tried that (apply as in-line style), but no change to the text size.
Tried a few variations but no luck. Again, color and font-face do change. Size does not.

I also tried as embedded style (which is what I will prefer to do). But same story... no change to font size.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>Title Is Here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css"><!--
body {
  margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
  background-color: #ffffff;
}
/* ========== Text Styles ========== */
hr { color: #FFD700}
body, table, span.rvts0
{
 font-size: 12pt;
 font-family: 'Verdana';
 font-style: normal;
 font-weight: normal;
 color: #dc143c;
 text-decoration: none;
}
span.rvts1
{
 font-size: '4';
 font-family: 'Times';
 font-style: normal;
 font-weight: normal;
 color: #556B2F;
}
--></style>
</head>
<body>
<p><span class=rvts0>First paragraph of text... first paragraph of text.</span></p>
<p><span class=rvts1>This is just a simple paragraph of text and it should have style controlled by the 'embedded style' above in html source.</span></p>
</body></html>

For font-size settings, none of these works: e.g., "2" or 22pt or 3.5em or 250% (with or w/o quotes).

If anybody cares to test it, the code above can be Copy/Pasted and saved as a complete html file. TIA

[Lar EDIT:] After more playing with this, I find Internet Explorer (8.0.6001) also does not respond to font-size change as written above. However, Firefox (3.0.4) does react to font-size style settings.

Lar_123 · **Posted:** April 30th, 2010, 1:32 am

Update.
I have got it working with a simple change of IE8 settings.
I found this support article at Microsoft. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=181502
However it says to 'check the box' --- mine was already checked, so I 'unchecked' it. Now the Browser object in Opus is responding to changes in HTML font styles, as does IE itself.
FYI, another point of info... browser shortcuts for zooming in IE do not affect Opus Browser object (that is, no Ctrl_+ or Ctrl_- )

Quote:

Article ID: 181502 - Last Review: January 22, 2007 - Revision: 4.2
You May Not be Able to Change the Font Size in Internet Explorer
This behavior can occur if the Web page you are viewing specifies an absolute font size (either via the HTML code or a style sheet). By default, Internet Explorer does not change the font size on a Web page that uses absolute (instead of relative) font sizes.

To work around this behavior, configure Internet Explorer to ignore font sizes specified on Web pages:
1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
3. On the General tab, click Accessibility.
4. Click to select the Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages check box.
5. Click OK twice.

(Mods, if I should not be quoting this, let me know I'll edit)

Anyway, learn something every day or two. I must have missed yesterday!

Roger Dunton · **Posted:** April 30th, 2010, 9:23 am

If changing the IE8 settings works - great. But I don't think you should need to do this. You might try inserting the following into your html:

font-size: 12px;

Lar_123 · **Posted:** April 30th, 2010, 1:51 pm

Quote:

font-size: 12px;

Nope. I still needed to tweak the Internet Explorer "Accessibility" settings.

So I am just adding that as a future reminder/to-do for myself. Will have to instruct Users to make that change if they want font control in the Pub.

[Lar EDIT:] Adding screenshot of the "Accessibility" settings dialogue -- for reference & easy find.

Roger Dunton · **Posted:** April 30th, 2010, 2:40 pm

Strange. Sorry it didn't work, Larry.

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