Resizing Your Text
If you find the text on a site is too large or too small for you to read comfortably, there are many ways in which you can adjust it, depending on your browser and the platform you are using. If you find that this advice does not work for you, please let me know, indicating the browser and version you are using as well as the platform, and ideally how you can adjust the text size, if you managed to find out!
Scroll Wheel Mouse Method
If you have access to a scroll wheel mouse, hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and scroll the wheel. This will adjust the text size on most platforms and browsers. Scrolling up will increase the text size, and scrolling down will… you guessed it, decrease the text size. If you are not able to use a scroll wheel mouse in this way, or if you wish to make a more permanent change to your text size, then you’ll have to use the browser specific techniques.
Per-Browser Methods
Depending on which browser you are using (sometimes called UA) there are other ways you can change the text size that you view sites. Simply follow the appropriate instructions from this list.
- Internet Explorer (5.0+)
- Select Text Size from the View menu, and choose a different text size.
- Mozilla Firefox (1.0+)
- Select Text Size from the View menu, and choose increase, decrease or normal as appropriate.
- Netscape Navigator (7.0+)
- Select Text Zoom from the View menu, and change the Zoom Percentage accordingly. Note that this only increases the size of text and not images.
- Opera (8.0+)
- You can zoom the entire page adjusting the size of images as well as text by selecting Zoom from the View menu and then altering the percentage zoom to suit
- Or you could choose a different style mode such as “accessibility mode” by selecting View and then changing the preferred Style.
- Or you can adjust the minimum font size that Opera will allow by selecting Tools, then Preferences, selecting the Advanced tab, clicking on Fonts and then changing the pixel value for Minimum Font Size. Or by this time you might prefer a nice cup of tea and a lie down
Plug-ins
You can also use the following plug-ins to make it more easy to resize your text on a given page.
- Mozilla Firefox plugins:
- Text size toolbar by Patrick Lauke, adds text size buttons to the toolbar
Mike Cherim says:
August 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Even though the contrast is good, I think the text is a little small in some places. But the theme was meant to use verdana. I did try it with Trebuchet, but I didn’t like the outcome. I don’t have a hard time reading it, but some might. But then again it’s all relative so they can enlarge it if those users wish to.
No biggie, but since you asked, those are my 2-cents.
Emma says:
August 30th, 2006 at 11:47 am
From what I’ve found, the Ctrl+scroll-wheel up/down is different across browsers:
Firefox, Netscape + IE6: scrolling down increases the text size (as though you are pulling the screen towards yourself).
Opera: scrolling up increases the text size, as you suggest.
1234test.com says:
August 30th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
Test1234…
…We all know that skills come pretty handy when doing something new and even more it if is important to us.[...]…
san diego houses for rent says:
September 11th, 2011 at 9:21 am
Rentied Houses Blog…
[...]To have many skills you can successfully do at a lot of jobs and doing almost no mistakes…[...]…
penny auction tips says:
September 20th, 2011 at 9:21 am
How To Deal With Penny Auctions…
[...]It’s a known truth that skills come pretty handy when doing work for the first time and even more it if is important to us……
photo to painting says:
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:06 pm
New Ideas On How To Lose Weight…
…When you are aware what is your job you can be a lot more successful than when you have no knowledge….[...]…
Kartenquiz says:
October 4th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
New Ideas On How To Lose Weight…
[...]We all know that skills come pretty handy when doing something new and even more it if is important to us.[...]…
plastic surgery internet marketing says:
November 4th, 2011 at 4:33 am
How To Make Plastic Surgery Marketing Work…
Some people make mistakes and this is when right knowledge is very important[...]…
house prices information says:
November 28th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
House Prices Information…
…When you are aware when working at your projects you can be a lot more successful than if you don’t have much skills…..
carrera sunglasses says:
December 6th, 2011 at 1:25 am
How To Get Good Sunglasses…
[...]Thank you for posting this exciting facts. I’ll check your internet site inside the future.[...]…
tag heuer lunettes says:
December 23rd, 2011 at 4:24 pm
What Is Lunette Tag Heuer…
[...]Awesome information that I’ve been searching for for some time! I got some interesting strategies from this[...]…
http://trafficsiphonreview.org says:
December 28th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
What Is An Electric Cigarette…
[...]Awesome info that I’ve been seeking for some time! Maintain up using the superior writing.[...]…
challenge coins says:
January 2nd, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Get Challenge Coins Online…
[...]Awesome data that I’ve been looking for for some time! I got some exciting suggestions from this[...]…
Atlanta Roofing says:
January 10th, 2012 at 11:54 pm
How To Find Roofing Sellers In Atlanta…
[...]Writing about a topic like that is pretty challenging. I will check out your web-site in the future.[...]…
Absolute Wealth says:
January 24th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
How To Define Absolute Wealth…
[...]Writing about a topic like this can be rather challenging. Maintain up using the great writing.[...]…
men fragrance says:
February 4th, 2012 at 1:47 am
How To Choose The Right Fragrance…
[...]It’s a known truth that right skill is very useful when doing something new and especially if it is something very important..[...]…
luxus.co.il says:
February 9th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Go Abroad and Discover World…
[...]This is truly cool. I’ve just had one more idea pop into my mind[...]…
convention says:
March 30th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Are Ghosts Real…
[...]This is truly cool. I will check your web page inside the long term.[...]…
2012 Spring Shoes says:
April 11th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
Spring Shoes Are Coming…
[...]Awesome data that I’ve been seeking for some time! Hold up with the superior writing.[...]…
dallas pools says:
April 15th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Pool Services Can Make A Difference…
[...]I believe it’s incredibly crucial that a lot more persons know about this. Keep up using the excellent writing.[...]…
Affordable Health Insurance In Missouri says:
June 25th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Car Insurance – Is It Worth It…
[...]It’s excellent that men and women even now know rather a bit about point like that. It is superior to understand plenty of men and women nevertheless care about this[...]…
Samar says:
September 2nd, 2012 at 11:59 am
The predictive narute makes it a cool dada generator too. And it’s twitch-interactive so who knows what subconscious things could be happening as you choose letters?take it was the universelfdestrong ust all thing blood the bit chured by dally needed two twiga head held the convership you could force thus isinxcuse ges of tengealer eive in cone ofqually mother in its with a betwere z and as selectrong about on to othere is a framnd lostphydrogen men x sort from being such brought nd wenty conclusion he lazilyrics affortly that is to the depoison of out of zero useThis is my new personal oracle!