Confluence Default Theme: Change Font Size used in Sidebar

Gavin Fowler

Hi

For years (?) my chosen theme for Confluence has been the Documentation theme. However, with the introduction/expansion of Blueprint and the sidebar capabilities (such as space short-cuts) I'm looking to move back to the Default Confluence Theme (this will be undertaken when we upgrade from 5.2.x to 5.3.x).

My one observation made during testing, is that the Default Theme Sidebar font is larger than that used by the Documentation theme. My QA team has asked whether the font size for the sidebar and only the side bar can be adjusted to something slightly smaller. I know the change is cosmetic, non functional, but I do sympathise with the request. In our instance we have quite a deep tree structure and in some areas some long page titles. The end result is that operators navigating using the sidebar (configured for page tree mode), are being forced to expand the sidebar area to see the page name, then contract it to see the content of the page..this then repeats when they return to the navigation. I'm aware the sidebar can be collapsed, but that's not a desirable state for the requirement.

Is changing the font size possible?

Many thanks!

Gavin.

Davin Studer

You can add custom CSS in the Confluence Administration to override the font size(Confluence Admin --> Look and Feel --> Stylesheet). For instance to override just the nav tree portion of the side bar this should work.

.ia-fixed-sidebar .ia-secondary-container .label {font-size: 9px;}