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  jazzi · Member · Apr 10, 2006 at 2:28 pm

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  Could you please consider adding an easy way to change the font size to our posts? I see that we can bold and italicize, so perhaps it wouldn’t be too hard to also change the size?

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  drmike · Member · Apr 10, 2006 at 6:06 pm

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  Just use the font tag. :)

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  jazzi · Member · Apr 10, 2006 at 6:11 pm

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  Okay, I went to FAQ, and searched for font tag, but nothing came up. I’ve looked for something that will allow me to change font size, but I can’t find it. I know how to do this in html, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Can you point me to the font tag?

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  drmike · Member · Apr 10, 2006 at 6:48 pm

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  If you’re using the font tag (ie <font size="2">This is some random text</font>) already and you say it’s not working, the theme may be overriding the text size that you want. This has been discussed many times already here.

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  philibuster · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 9:17 am

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  Isn’t the font tag not w3c compliant or something? I think it’s supposed to have been replaced by the style:… attribute. Someone who’s smarter can give a better explanation.

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  options · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 12:37 pm

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  yep, it is deprecated in favor of CSS attrib (moreover <font> attribs invalidates a feed) but…

  no another facility to change a typeface height here yet.

  the same goes to image aligning etc.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 6:24 pm

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  Agreed but what works, works. :)

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  cornell · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 7:19 pm

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  That’s true Mike, but god forbid we actually do something to make something work right but break the validation for the page/feed! ;)

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  options · Member · Apr 13, 2006 at 7:41 pm

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  it is not the God, cornell, it’s people who work on standards in cometees like W3C, and they aren’t “forbiding” — just do not recommend (got the difference?) to use them because that *deprecated* soon becomes an *obsolete*.

  *obsolete* means “there is no guarantee of support by a user agent”.

  in other words, using a deprecated today, means getting an unrenderable (non readable) content tomorrow — monkey business.