a Fix for the small font in the post editor using stylish

Hi I can't fix all site problems, but I have a fix for the text editor so you can see what you are writing.

Webpages are basically content and style. html covers the words written and css controls how it is laid out on the page. Normally your web browser loads the content html and a css style file from the website.

For Gardeners World the current text size is 10px for the editor box.

Stylish is an extension for firefox which allows you to load and create styles for existing webpages which over ride the settings the webpage designer specified. Good news is you don't need to do any creating I have a style created and available to install. 

Google Stylish and the name of your webbrowser in my case its firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

Select install addon (some might have installed it already for styling other sites)

Once installed it will ask to restart your browser.

Go to the Gardeners World website and on the notification bar you  on the bottom of your browser you should see an S in the corner left click on that and select 'find styles for this site' it should find the style I've uploaded click install and now you will be able to write your posts in 14 px instead of 10px.

If you don't like 14px you can select the style and choose edit and just change the font size to something better maybe 16px or even 20px

Simpler than it sounds honest. If anyone struggles with it just ask and i'll try to walk you through. There is always left 'Ctrl +' but that does the whole page where this is a fix for the textbox for entering your posts only

It just fixes this single problem, it should work for most browsers including internet explorer , chrome, opera, and safari 

Thanks, it works...all the better to see you ....

However, I still can't access 'my posts'.

Does anyone else have a box at the bottom of the reply box with 'Path: p' ?

Cool that was quick 5 minutes from me posting it

Yes I do 

Ok so there seems to be quite a few problems with the site because I just tried to quote your question cilmeri  in my reply of "yes I do" and it clearly hasn't worked 

Try holding down control key and clicking plus key (minus key to revert to normal when finished).

That's neat Siabod! Went to download the stylish thing for Chrome but then saw that it tracked your internet activity, not in a malicious way I think, just to target you with yet more 'tailored' adverts.

tattianna wrote (see)

Ok so there seems to be quite a few problems with the site because I just tried to quote your question cilmeri  in my reply of "yes I do" and it clearly hasn't worked 

Yup, stil problems, tried to change my avatar and it wouldn't play.

Brumbull wrote (see)

Hello ALL

 

I have just been notified by email that the technical issues we are currently  experiencing with this forum are being dealt wth by the technical team, Naomi Jones (sub editor) has confirmed the issues are being looked in to

 

Regards

Brumbull

So do I, and I don't get any E-mails from GW teling me of new posts!

This is a screen shot that comes up when I mark Path and open Get Info:

Hi Figrat,

Tracking can only occur if Styles include elements from third party websites

Say I was to make a style putting flowers on the page background it would load the image from another site e.g mysite.com/images/flower.jpg if It was my website all requests for that image would be logged, every request to servers is logged. In that way yes you could be tracked.

The style I made doesn't do that all it does is change the font size from "use 10 px font to use 14px font. So no tracking at all for this style.

It is part of the configuration files to your web browser.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("www.gardenersworld.com") {
body#tinymce.mceContentBody {
color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size:14px !important;
}


You can write this to userContent.css in the browser chrome folder and not install stylish at all.

prior connection to smartguys at Mozilla  Firefox and having problems before had enquired anyway - 

however.......seems to have slipped back..getting too complicated for me now..I'll wait for the GW team to sort it out...

Thanks BB

Siabod wrote (see)

Try holding down control key and clicking plus key (minus key to revert to normal when finished).

This works brilliantly, that's what I'm doing. But thanks blackest for your suggestion...might explore it later.

Thanks blackest, I can now see what i'm typing

more than welcome, I have a feeling they have upgraded the cms and it is not quite a smooth upgrade.  I guess someone will be tearing their hair out ...