[wp-testers] Font size in Admin is too big

Ade Walker photofantaisie at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 20:57:21 GMT 2008


Hi Kim,

Yes, that's it, it used to be 11px.

Thanks.

Ade.

2008/11/21 Kim Parsell <kparsell-wp at kpdesign.net>

> Otto -
>
> The description paragraphs in the Plugins page and other pages that use
> that same type of table are using the 12px font size, which doesn't match
> what's been specified in the stylesheets for those areas. For example, from
> global.css:
>
> .widefat td,
> .widefat th {
>   border-bottom-width: 1px;
>   border-bottom-style: solid;
>   border-bottom-color: #ccc;
>   font-size: 11px;
>   vertical-align: text-top;
> }
>
> Because the descriptions are wrapped in paragraph tags, that rule is being
> overridden by this from wp-admin.css:
>
> p, ul, ol, blockquote { font-size: 12px; }
>
> If you add this to global.css right after the above-referenced section
> (around line 330), you'll see the difference in the font size that was
> originally intended:
>
> .widefat td p {
>   font-size: 11px;
> }
>
>
> Kim
>
> --------------------------------
>
> Otto wrote:
>
>> I'm not seeing that here. I had to scale the text up two levels in
>> Firefox to make those links wrap.
>>
>> Looking at it with the Web Developer toolbar, the font-size is set to
>> 12px.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Ade Walker <photofantaisie at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Beta3-9826
>>>
>>> Just a comment to say that I much preferred the smaller font used
>>> previously
>>> compared to the current font size in the Admin pages (specifically the
>>> plugins page). The larger font size causes the Settings ¦ Deactivate ¦
>>> Edit
>>> links to wrap. Now that we have less horizontal screen space due to the
>>> new
>>> menus I would have thought that keeping the old font size would have been
>>> preferable.  Just my thoughts, feel free to ignore them. :-)
>>>
>>> Ade.
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