Setting Font and Color for the Help Viewer

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You can customize the font and color properties that are used to display the pages in the help viewer. Font properties include the font family, style, variant, weight, and size. Color properties include the color of text, the background color of text, and the color of borders.

To set fonts and colors for displaying help pages:

  1. From the main window, choose File > Open File.
  2. In the Open dialog box, navigate to IDE-install-directoryide11/docs/org/netbeans/modules/usersguide and open the file ide.css.

    The ide.css file is the style sheet that describes how to present the fonts and colors in the help pages.

  3. Edit ide.css to your preferences.
  4. Choose File > Save.
  5. Open the help viewer and verify your changes.
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Displaying Help in a Web Browser

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