Also try putting the CEWP at the bottom of the page (not sure if that really makes a difference with CSS but it does with scripts so I make a habot of doing it that way).

http://5280solutions.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/reasons-to-love-the-content-editor-web-part-cewp/

Let me know if that help you out.

Jay

Now what I see is a page with 2 sections. The first section simply displays the text “.ms-vb2 { font size: 24;} The second section displays my list (still with small fonts).

Even though the I haven’t found Todd Bleeker’s script, I have verified that the class .ms-vb2 is what is being used. I looked at the source html, which definitely had <table class=".ms-vb2" right where my text is at that I would like to be bigger.

Thanks again, and if there's any ideas on where I might be going wrong with the CEWP, I'm all ears.

Jim

What you’ll need to do is this:

1. Add a Content Editor Webpart to your webpart page.
2. Click the Edit dropdown on your CEWP and then select “Modify Shared Web Part”
3. Open the “Source Editor” and add something along the lines of the following:

.ms-vb2
{
font-size: 24;
}

Click OK and see if your font size has changed. I would suggest loading the script that Todd Bleeker wrote that will show you the css class of the part of the page you are trying to change it will be a great help. There is a link to that script in the Intro article of this series as well as my blog.

Just to verify that the above works I have a virtual machine that I created a custom list on with just title and body columns and added the css above and it changed the font size of the contents of the body column of my custom list. Note that the title column uses a different css class (.ms-vb on my VM).

I’m glad you’re finding the series useful. I know how frustrating trying to find an answer specific to your needs can be and hope I am helping some folks with that.

In the last article in this particular series we’ll talk about how we can apply css changes to our sites and/or pages. The solution I’ve outlined here will definitely be a part of that.

Let me know if there is somthing that isn’t clear or that doesn’t work.

Jay

Perhaps you can point me in the right direction for my question (below). Google has not been able to answer it yet, and my IT guys that run the server are not helpful at all… “they just keep the server running – they don’t know how to post documents”… whatever.

What I want to do seems so simple. I have a list, which I post multiple things to every day (just “body” and “title”). Each day, I have to quickly breif the boss on what was posted yesterday (along with all the other department reps). I’ve designed a “view” to show only what was posted the previous day (big accomplishment for my newbie status!), and I created a web-part page to display this view. My problem is that the default fonts for this page are too small… we (each department rep) display our topics on a big screen TV in the conference room. I’d like to display my new page, but it’s too small to read. All I want to do is make a custom font for this page so that the “title” is bold and big, and that the “body” is also big.

Do you know of any guides that can point me to what I want to do?
Keep up the great products – I’ve learned a lot these past few days from reading your stuff.

That being said I have downloaded the VHD from Microsoft and have been playing with it a little. However, that is mostly to support a specific article I am writing on implementing consistent navigation across multiple site collections using an XML file as the sitemap datasource.

That will probably be out in a week or two and I hope to present it at a SharePoint Saturday event at some point intime.

Jay