Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Changing Fonts





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The font you see on this page and all other pages in the Wiki is the default font. You can change the font by using the attribute "font-family:font value". Word processors provide a variety of font values you can use. For example, you can use Times New Roman, Sans-serif, Ariel, Tahoma, Algerian, etc.

Changing fonts
  ... The aforementioned code changes the font from the system default to times new roman as shown below: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis.
 * Using our span tags, we add the following inline style and attribute code between the span and the > in the opening span tag:
 * NOTE: The new times roman font appears smaller than the default font. Keep this in mind when you change fonts as you may need to change the font size which is described in the next section.

Enlarging fonts
Normal size of the default font is about 14 pixels. Let's say we want to enlarge the font to say 16 pixels. To make the font larger you insert the attribute font-size: 16px in the span tag coding:  ... Here is the span with the enlarged font:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis.

Another way to enlarge fonts
In addition to using fixed amounts such as pixels, another unit of measure found in Wiki articles is the point size "em".
 * One "em" is equal to the default size of the font on a page.
 * If you want to double the size of a your font, you will use "2em" and it will be twice as big as the default text.
 * The standard to be used in Wiki articles is the pixel (px).

Try these out
 Exercises
 * Enlarge the lorem ipsum paragraph to 20px.
 * Change the font to "New Times Roman".

Check your answers

 Quick Quiz
 * You can add the "font-size" attribute before the = sign?
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Quotation marks are only needed at the beginning of the inline style code.
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers

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