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Tiny font for text with hyperlink

Joan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:44:54 GMT

I have followed the standard procedure for inserting a hyperlink into text, but when I do this the text font becomes tiny and the font changes. I have tried to increase the size and font of the text using the font tool but it doesn't work. What can I do?

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

orchie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:44:49 GMT

Hi Joan, can you post your website address and let us know which package you are using?

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

beermatt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:43:37 GMT

Hi. I suspect that you have a conflict between your chosen font/size and your CSS (cascading style sheets). If you don't know, CSS is a way of globally controlling aspects of your site. There will be a class in your CSS which determines the appearance of links and this is overiding what you have chosen. You can change the appearance for all links in your CSS, or you can make sub-classes so links can have different appearances.

As Orchie said it would be helpful if you would post your site address and give details of how you made it.

Matt.

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

pete33 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:44:08 GMT

Hi Joan,

I am building a website using easysitewizard pro and I am experiencing exactly the same problem. I set the font size but then when making it into a hyperlink the font size and colour changes to a tiny grey font almost invisible on the webpage. Have tried everything to change it without success.

Hope someone else can solve this as it must happen to so many others.

Regards,

Pete

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

beermatt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:05:10 GMT

Hi Pete, again if you could post a link to the page in question it would be helpful.

Matt.

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

pete33 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:52:18 GMT

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your help.

My webpage is www.donika.co.uk/index.html

I have two hyperlinks at the bottom of the page which are hardly visible.

Many Thanks,

Pete

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

beermatt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:57 GMT

Hi Pete. I am not an expert but you seem to have 2 style sheets that are referred to by this page. You can see this by choosing view source from the view menu in your browser. They are called default.eswstyle.css and default.msie.eswstyle.css. I would think that one or both of those is causing your problems. You will find them in your public folder on your hosting. If you know how you could edit them (either in notepad or a html editor). Or you could email them to me and I could take a look at them tonight. I don't want to post my email here but you can use the contact form on my site www.goldenumber.co.uk

Good luck, Matt.

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

pete33 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:25:26 GMT

Thanks Matt, I really appreciate your advice.

I'm trying to understand more about how these things work, so I will give this a try myself and see if I can make the changes.

No guarantee that I will manage it myself so you could still hear back from me......but fingers crossed!

Thanks again for your help!

Regards,

Pete

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

Joan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:56 GMT

Hi All

My website address is http://home.btconnect.com/joanbennett/ which I have built with Easysite Wizard pro. I would really appreciate someone sorting out my CSS for me as it all sound a bit complex.

Thanks very much for your help.

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

orchie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:17:56 GMT

Hi Joan,

As per my PM, switch to HTML mode and paste the following somewhere in the code, preferably before the </head> tag, if not before the </body> tag and let me know if it works, it does in my test.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
a {
	font-size: large;
}
-->
</style>

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

Joan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:50:03 GMT

Orchie

Thanks for persisting on this one. I don't understand how to shift to html mode within Easy Sitewizard pro. Could you explain?

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

dave — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:04 GMT

You can change the hyperlink font / size / colour by doing the following:

Once you have applied the hyperlink, add a space to the end of the text, then highlight the text from the right including the space.

This will then allow you to edit the font properties, rather bringing up the link destination box.

You can then remove the space afterwards.

This method may not work in Firefox and may only work in Internet Explorer.

Re: Tiny font for text with hyperlink

pete33 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:49:38 GMT

Thanks Dave

I've had the same problem and just tried your solution and it works like a dream. This must be the easiest way to change the font size for a hyperlink. I'm glad I read your posting!!!

Regards,

Pete