[AccessD] Moving on to Fonts

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Wed Jul 13 17:32:07 CDT 2022


I think I'm going to start using unbound RichText textboxes in lieu of labels in Reports to 
"spice them up"  and avoid having to use multiple labels for headers. I :)

On 13 Jul 2022 at 10:54, John Colby wrote:

> Yea, my usage is just for displaying messages in color, specific fonts
> and sizes etc.  It is possible that we may put it into our product
> later, but really again just to spice up the form for display.  Not
> really looking to create a web page from it.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 9:48 AM Stuart McLachlan
> <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> 
> > As an aside, the  HTML used in Rich Text textboxes is an old version
> > (HTML 3 ? ).
> >
> > <font> and <font size> were depreciated in HTML 4.01 (in 1999) and
> > made obsolete in HTML 5 (in 2014), so be cautious about using it in
> > web pages.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 13 Jul 2022 at 23:33, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> >
> > > I've just built a little tool to make it easy to the get  HTML
> > > behind a Rich Text textbox. It's a single form accdb.
> > >
> > > Just a simple form with two textboxes, one Rich Text and one Plain
> > > Text plus a button. Enter your text into the RT textbox with all
> > > the formatting you want, click thebutton and the HTML is copied
> > > into the plain text box - you can then copy it and use it
> > > elsewhere ( even iin a HTML web page :) )
> > >
> > > Grab it from https://camcopng.com/download/RichTextHTMLView.zip
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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