Choosing your preferred text style in your browser - Netscape
Many websites you visit may not have text in a style you find easy to read. The following steps will also override the style they have chosen with that of your preferred choice.
First make sure that the Allow documents to use other fonts box is not checked:
- Open the Edit menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+E.
- Click on Preferences or press E to open the preferences dialog box.
- Click on, or use the arrow keys to select the Font heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Font heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key. (See fig 1)
Fig 1 - Using the mouse, or the Tab key, navigate to the box labelled Allow documents to use other fonts and press the space bar or use the mouse to make sure the box is checked.
- Open the Edit menu with the mouse or by pressing Alt+E.
- Click on Preferences or press E to open the preferences dialog box.
- Click on, or use the arrow keys to select the Font heading underneath the Appearance category. If you cannot see the Font heading, you may need to expand the Appearance category. Do this by either double clicking on Appearance, or selecting Appearance with the arrow keys and pressing the right arrow key.
- Use the mouse, or the tab key, to navigate to the Proportional drop down box.
- Press up or down and then enter to choose the font you wish to use, or use the mouse and click on your chosen font. A proportional font is one in which the letters are of varying widths, like this paragraph. You can either choose Serif or Sans Serif.
- Once you have chosen the default proportional font, you can set the default size. Press Tab or use the mouse to click in the size box immediately after the proportional font. Press up or down and then enter, or use the mouse, to choose the font you want.
- Select the first Choose button with the mouse by pressing Tab and Enter.(see fig 3)
- Tab once more, or use the mouse, to navigate to the Serif box. Press up or down, select the font you want to use and press enter, or use the mouse to click on the font that you want to use (this will only be used if you selected Serif as the Proportional font in stage 5)
- Tab once more, or use the mouse to navigate to the Sans Serif box. Press up or down, select the font you want to use and press enter, or use the mouse to click on the font that you want to use (this will only be used if you selected Sans Serif as the proportional font)
- Tab once more, or use the mouse to navigate to the Cursive box. Press up or down and then enter to choose the font you wish to use, or use the mouse and click on your chosen font. This is used when someone has specified a cursive font on their page.
- Tab once more, or use the mouse to navigate to the Fantasy box. Press up or down and then enter to choose the font you wish to use, or use the mouse and click on your chosen font. This is used when someone has specified a Fantasy font on their page.
- Tab once more, or use the mouse to navigate to the Monospace box. Press up or down and then enter to choose the font you wish to use, or use the mouse and click on your chosen font. This is used when someone has specified a monospace font on their page.
- When you have chosen your fonts, click OK or press Enter to return to the page you were viewing.
To change the font style you are using.