Dreamweaver Text to small to edit

How do I make ther text in Show Design View bigger so I can edit it?

[TravelDog]

We had a design chap build us a site sometime ago. (I've put it in my profile).

Now we want to update some simple text changes, but when we open the pages with Dreamweaver MX on our Mac the text in Design View is too small to read or edit?

Strangely to us unenlightened the site looks fine on the web and the other Dreamweaver windows like 'show code view' have reasonable size text.

Is there a command, tool or button somewhere to make the Design View text bigger?

[Leosghost]

Open code and design view simultaneously
..find the size attribute in the code view , change it to say 2 ,that will change the size in the design view ( and if you click your cursor on it ( your text ..anywhere in the sentence ) in the design view ...you will see in the properties "dialogue" box at the bottom of DW the size will be showing "2"...Here is whre you can set the size of text ..play around with different sizes..switch back and forth between the code window and the design window and you'll get the idea ...Bear in mind that when you have finished your "edit" you need to reset the size ( either by altering the values in "code view ..or in the size box in the GUI properties window ) else the layout will be weird and the page design will alter ..test it lots in the test with browser area ..

BTW to pull up this properties box in DW you check "show properties"..

The reason that you can see the text in code and not in design is that code doesn't care what size you specify it always shows whats there ..size =-6 or size =9 is all the same to "code view " ..cos it's ..well ..code :)

<multiple edits by myself .speeling>

[yalta]

Hello,

I am new to using Dreamweaver on my Mac and encountered a similiar problem to Traveldog. It seems my style sheet is rendering text VERY small in my design view. I can edit it fine, but it is very hard to view. (looks fine on the live page though)

Any way to correct this situation (without changing the font size to 2 and then back to default every time i work on a page?)

Maybe the real question I have is: Is this a problem with DW or with my style sheet?

The sheet i link the page to is super simple, really just dictates text size and nothing else at this point, and I did not ever have this problem with it when working on my site while on a PC, everything always looked fine.

thanks for any insight or ideas!

[Leosghost]

Hi yalta ..Welcome to WebmasterWorld.

Anyone here will tell you asking me about CSS isn't gonna get you far .. ;)

Better to repost the question with a sample of your style sheet ( minus the site identifiers etc ) in CSS Forum and someone will help out ...

I dont think your problem comes from DW ..

[adamxcl]

On the opposite side of this, does any one know (if) the way to reduce the display size of code in the code view. Aside from resolution and outside issues. I want to change only the display size of the Code text, not the size on a webpage for a user. I have a big monitor and just want to see more code in the DW window as it seems rather big.

[belladonna]

I'd suggest playing with the settings in Edit > Preferences > Fonts. There are options for code view and proportional fonts. The proportional fonts should affect the text you see in design view. (But if you have an absolute font size defined in your CSS I think it will override the proportional font size in the preferences.)