Monday, April 11, 2011

Play With Browser Font

In this post, I'll discuss on how to control font settings of your browser. I'll discuss about the mostly used  browsers only. If you are using any other browser, you can mention the browser's name in the comment section, I'll update about that browser.

Adjust Font Size Of Web Page
I have noticed in different forums and communities that many people come up with the question that they unintentionally pressed something in keyboard and the font of the page has become very small or big and now they can manage it. Well, the solution is quite easy. You can manage your webpage's font size like this-
For most of the browsers you can press to enlarge font size, to decrease font size and to restore font size to default. Try it. Please note means the combo key of 'Ctrl' button and 'plus' symbol button. Similarly means 'Ctrl' button and 'Minus' symbol button and means 'Ctrl' button and 'Zero' number button.
An image to clarify it more-
You can adjust font size using mouse wheel too.
Use to enlarge font size and to decrease font size. I don't know how to restore font size to default using mouse wheel. I use for that.
You can adjust font size of the browser from its menu bar settings too-
In Firefox >> Menu Bar >> View >> Zoom >> Zoom In or Out
In IE >> Menu Bar >> View >> Text Size >> Choose One.
In Chrome >> Wrench Icon >> Zoom
In Safari >> Menu Bar>> View>> Zoom In or Out (If you can not see menu bar, click on wrench icon, and click on ‘show menu bar’)
In Opera>>  Menu Bar (If you can not see menu bar, click on Menu Button in the top left corner of screen, and click on ‘show menu bar’)>> View>> Zoom>> Choose one
In Epic>> Menu Bar >> View >> Zoom >> Zoom In or Out
In Netscape Navigator>> Menu Bar >> View >> Zoom >> Zoom In or Out

Change Browser's Default Font, Font size etc
You can change browser's default font, font size etc too. To do this-
1) In Firefox Menu Bar>>Tools>>Options>> Content Tab>>Choose font, font size, color etc. You may go to advanced tab there for advanced settings of browser's display font.
2) In Chrome Wrench Icon>> Under the hood tab>> Set Font properties
3) In Internet Explorer Menu Bar>>Tools>>Internet Options>>General>> Appearance (bottom of the page)>> Set font size, color, language there.
4) In Opera>> Menu Bar (If you can not see menu bar, click on Menu Button in the top left corner of screen, and click on ‘show menu bar’)>>Tools>>Preferences>>Advanced>>Fonts>> Choose your font, font size etc.


You can change font etc from browser's config settings too. To do that (you need to be careful while handling these settings pages)-
In Firefox in address bar write about:config and press 'Enter', a pop up will come up. Click to promise to be careful. Then you have landed in the main settings page of your browser (Firefox) in the search option write 'Font', lots of results will come up. You can change and mange fonts from here too. Perhaps I am going to write another post on Firefox about:config tricks, so I'll not describe in details on it here.
Similarly you can use about:config in Opera too. Opera does not alert you when you enter about:config in address bar. After entering about:config in address bar, click on the Font tab and there you can change font settings.
Well, I do not know, how to use about:config in Chrome. Please let me know about it in comment section if you know about it.
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