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Changing the default font size in items

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Background

If you create a new item, a default font size is applied to the body text of the item. The item body text is all text that has paragraph style Normal (i.e. content blocks, interaction blocks, feedback, hint, source, etc.). 

You can define the default font size in your user profile. The default font size will be applied to all your newly created items. For more information, see Setting the default font size. 

As an author, you can always change the font size of your items.

Notes:

  • You cannot change the header font size. Following the Web Content Aaccessibility Guidelines, header font sizes are relative compared to the normal item font size. 
  • You cannot change the font size of a problem in a math item. The problem in a math item has a fixed font size of 19 px.
  • You cannot change the font size of a balance or journal in the economatic item types.

Changing the font size for one item

Proceed as follows to change the font size of an item: 

  1. Go to Authoring > Items.
  2. Open the item of your choice. 
    Result: The content pane of your item is opened. At the right, you see the item properties in the Item tab. 
  3. Open the Options section in the Item tab. 
    Result: You see the font size that is applied to the body text of your item. If the font size of the body text was overridden previously, you will see the the message 'This item has overridden font sizes' below the font size dropdown. 
  4. Choose the required font size. You can choose a value between 9px and 36px.
    Result: The body text of your item that does not have an overridden font size gets this new font size. 

Changing the font size for several items in a folder

Proceed as follows to change the font size of several items or subfolders in bulk:

  1. Go to Authoring > Items.
  2. Open the folder that contains items or subfolders for which you want to change the font size.
  3. Click on the top of the page.
    Result: Checkboxes appear next to the items and folders.
  4. Check the items or folders for which you want to change the font size.
  5. Select Edit item options in the menu on the bottom of the page.

    Result: The Edit item options pop-up appears.
  6. Select Font size and choose the required font size. 

    Result: The body text of your items that do not have an overridden font size gets this new font size. 

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