Friday, April 15, 2011

Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle text size in IE8?

IE 6+ had the capability to hold ctrl + mousewheel to increase and decrease the text size on the page. However, now IE 8 has replaced that functionality with the widely accepted full page zoom +-. Has anyone found a keyboard shortcut that will just increase and decrease the text size again?

From stackoverflow
  • This isn't exactly a shortcut, but it can be accomplished from the keyboard.

    • ALT-V will bring up the View menu
    • "x" will bring up the Text size submenu
    • Up and down arrow keys choose the size
    • "Enter" selects.

    This works even if the menu bar isn't visible.

    Mister Lucky : thanks for the quick response, but hoping for something with far less keypresses.
    Andrew : Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that's all you've got if you don't like the snazzy "full-page zoom" bug, er... I mean, feature.
  • Zoom:

    To increase:

    CTRL + "+"

    and

    To decrease

    CTRL + "-" or CTRL + "="

    Text size:

    alt + v

    x

    g or l or m or s or a

    Andrew : You just did the same thing I did. This does not work in IE8... like he says... in the question.
    thijs : I added keys to change the text size now, I jumped the gun before ;)

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