# Controlling text size in posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448 "2018-03-07T20:30:08Z")
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### Author: ![Timothy\_Vail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timothy_vail/32/90872_2.png) [@Timothy\_Vail](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timothy_Vail)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/1 "2018-03-07T20:30:08Z")

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This is a very basic question, but I couldn’t seem to find it anywhere. The post instructions that I did find on here don’t work.

I want to have a specific post have big text, I tried BBCode / markdown [size=40][/size] etc but it doesn’t work. I tried` <div> <font size>` etc, nothing works!

How can I control the font size for particular strings of text in a post?

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/2 "2018-03-07T20:35:19Z")

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One option is to use `<big>` and `<small>` tags

Examples:

* * *

`<big>this text is large</big>`  
this text is large

* * *

`<small>This text is small</small>`  
This text is small

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### Author: ![Timothy\_Vail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timothy_vail/32/90872_2.png) [@Timothy\_Vail](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timothy_Vail)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/3 "2018-03-07T20:49:59Z")

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> [@lll](#):
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> \<big\>

That did the trick! Thank you much! How about making quotes, without using the quote button? Is there a tag for that?

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/4 "2018-03-07T20:57:06Z")

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This would work:

`<blockquote>This is a quote</blockquote>`

> This is a quote

What are you trying to do?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/5 "2018-03-07T20:58:55Z")

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Additionally, If you start a new line with a `>` it will create a blockquote — Discourse supports bbcode, (some) HTML, and Markdown… but generally Markdown is the simplest way to format content.

You can find a quick reference and a tutorial here: [Markdown Reference](http://commonmark.org/help/)

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### Author: ![Timothy\_Vail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timothy_vail/32/90872_2.png) [@Timothy\_Vail](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timothy_Vail)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/6 "2018-03-07T22:04:57Z")

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Yes, I actually found it just before you posted that. Thank you though!

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### Author: ![Timothy\_Vail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timothy_vail/32/90872_2.png) [@Timothy\_Vail](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timothy_Vail)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/7 "2018-03-07T22:48:20Z")

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Now, what about the quote markdown, what would that be in html? for example [quote=“user1, post:66, topic:52”] \<blockquote="user1,etc\>?

Basically, if [quote=“user1, post:66, topic:52”] is the input then what is the output in raw code/html? I’m trying to detect when someone quotes, but I’m not picking up anything beginning with [quote= when posted.

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### Author: ![Johani](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johani/32/176920_2.png) [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/8 "2018-03-08T01:17:53Z")

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A quote from a specific user / post gets converted into an `<aside>` element with the class `quote` Inside that there are different elements like a div that holds the meta information like user avatar and name and a `<blockquote>` that holds the actual quote

Something like this:

 ![Capture](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/3/1370eee7eb25e155938a946a5adc6fa119fd32ce.PNG)

And that’s what it looks like in html:

```plaintext
<aside class="quote" data-post="2" data-topic="82448">
	<div class="title" style="cursor: pointer;">
		<div class="quote-controls"><i class="fa fa-chevron-down d-icon d-icon-chevron-down" title="expand/collapse"></i><a href="/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/2" title="go to the quoted post" class="back"><i class="fa fa-arrow-up d-icon d-icon-arrow-up"></i></a></div>
		<img alt="" width="20" height="20" src="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lll/40/85378_1.png" class="avatar"> lll:</div>
	<blockquote>
		<p>&lt;big&gt;</p>
	</blockquote>
</aside>

```

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### Author: ![Timothy\_Vail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/timothy_vail/32/90872_2.png) [@Timothy\_Vail](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timothy_Vail)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/9 "2018-03-08T01:39:47Z")

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Thanks, that is the html, but my bot doesn’t recognize any part of that or the [quote]. Anyhow, this might be more on the bot side of things than just the html or markdown itself. Thank you anyhow!

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### Author: ![jhjln87](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jhjln87/32/139537_2.png) [@jhjln87](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jhjln87)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2019, 2:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/10 "2019-04-28T02:14:40Z")

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What about any text size? I’ve seen someone do smaller than small in a website using this domain.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/11 "2019-04-29T13:29:13Z")

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Have a look at this BBCode plugin

> [@Discourse BBCode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-bbcode/65425):
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> information_sourceSummary Discourse BBCode adds the ability to use BBCode to format posts.discourse2Hosted by us? This plugin is available on our Enterprise plansmechanicSelf-host Install [Install plugins on a self-hosted site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-on-a-self-hosted-site/19157)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-bbcode) The Discourse BBCode plugin enhances the Markdown composer [[1]](#footnote-304175-1) with support for the [BBCode syntax](https://www.bbcode.org/reference.php) beyond what is included by default (i.e. [i], [b], [s], [u], […

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/controlling-text-size-in-posts/82448/12 "2024-06-08T12:37:12Z")

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