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quick question: how come there is no "appearance" button on the English wikipedia? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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this changes the width of the article (resembling the old style a little bit), as well as the SIZE of the text, which is very different from your browser changing the size of the page. Very convenient.

Only seen on the Dutch wikipedia

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There's some browser extensions you can use too. I think one of the things I linked mentioned some of those

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I installed a few but afaik they ALL change a heck lot more than just font size, unfortunately...

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A bit more effort but you could also use some extensions that let you put any custom CSS styling on a page to

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

DONE.

// ==UserScript==
// @name     en.wikipedia font size LARGE
// @version  1
// @match    https://en.wikipedia.org/*
// @grant    none
// @require    http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

(function(){
  'use strict';
  // Use the .css() method to change CSS properties
  $('.vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref--excluded, .vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-0').css('--font-size-medium', '1.10rem');
})();