Setting the Style and Fonts options in the Role Settings dialog box

Use the Styles and Fonts category to control whether typographic styles and fonts appear in the Contribute toolbar and which kinds of typographical styles users can apply to text.

To set the Style and Fonts category options:

  1. Select the method by which Contribute users can (or cannot) apply styles to text from the Style support pop-up menu. The style options are as follows:

    Don't allow users to create styles prohibits users from creating new styles. Users cannot modify any text and style formatting options.

    Document-level CSS lets you determine whether users can create CSS styles within the document, and to what degree they can apply CSS styles from existing CSS style sheets.

    HTML tags lets you determine whether users can create HTML styles, and to what degree they can modify and apply styles within the website.

  2. Change the Styles options as necessary:

    If the Allow users to apply styles option is selected, users can apply heading and paragraph styles using the Contribute editor toolbar or menu commands. If this option is deselected, the user cannot apply new paragraph styles.

    Two options determine which styles appear in the editing toolbar's Style menu:

    Include HTML heading styles (<h1, ...) in the Style menu specifies that the standard HTML Paragraph, Heading1, Heading2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Heading 5, and Heading 6 tags are available in the Style menu.

    Include CSS styles in the Style menu specifies that CSS styles appear in the Style menu.

    Show all included CSS styles specifies that all CSS styles, whether they are within the document or are referenced in styles, appear in the Style menu.

    Show only CSS styles included in this CSS file lets you limit the CSS styles visible to users in the Style menu by specifying a specific CSS file that you create. If you want all roles to have access to the same CSS styles, you can use a single CSS file; if you want to make only certain CSS styles available to users in a role, you can create an individual CSS file for each role.

    Note: To prevent a CSS style from being available to Contribute users, the page designer can change the name of the style so that the name starts with "mmhide" (without quotation marks). For example, if you use a style named RightJustified on a page but you don't want Contribute users to use that style, rename the style to mmhideRightJustified. For more information, see "Setting Up a Site for Use with Contribute" in Dreamweaver MX 2004 Help.

    Allow users to apply fonts and sizes (displays the Font and Size menu) activates the font and style menus in the Contribute editor toolbar. This lets users select the fonts and font sizes to use on the page. If this option is not selected, Contribute uses the font styles and sizes defined in the page's HTML source code.

    Apply sizes using lets you select the unit of measure to display in the Contribute editor toolbar: points, pixels, or ems. This option is available only if you selected Document-level CSS from the Style support pop-up menu.

    Allow users to apply bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and fixed width styles activates the bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and fixed width style options in the Formatting menu and lets the user apply these options to text.

    Allow users to apply font color and background color activates the Text Color and Highlight Color options in the Formatting menu and lets the user apply these options to text.

  3. Select another role settings category to modify or click OK to apply your changes.

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