Amend help-language in Style Wizard

[kaigou]

Title:
Amend help-language in Style Wizard

Area:
styles, wizard

Summary:
Amend the help text in the Style Wizard to say "Leave blank for default."

Description:
Currently when you're customizing your style in the Wizard, there are several places (most notably the font size and family selections) where you'll see help text that says: "Leave blank if you don't care." This isn't just non-helpful, it also reads as a little rude.

If you didn't care, then you probably wouldn't be mucking around in the style wizard in the first place. Beyond that, it doesn't actually tell you what happens if you leave the entry blank. It doesn't help either when the default version is a blank input box.

Frex, many styles give you the option to pick fonts for text, title, sub-title, post title, but the input boxes are empty. Too many scary questions for new users: what font's being used, then? Or does the style use my browser's default? Will the style will break in some way that I might've prevented had I cared enough to enter a font-name into the input box?

It's not a perfect solution (I'd prefer all wizarded-styles with default values reflect these in any input boxes), but at minimum changing any instance of "leave blank if you don't care" to "leave blank to use default" at least lets the user know there *is* a default (of some sort) that will be applied in the absence of user selection.

Poll #1724 Amend help-language in Style Wizard

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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Should be implemented as-is.
13 (61.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (38.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[zvi]

The reason that many of the values don't have a value listed is because the styles are partially written in Cascading Style Sheets. If your style is written to take advantage of the cascade, (for example, you want to use the same font for all of the text everywhere on the page) then it's quite normal and correct to specify only the topmost level and let the rest cascade down.)

[kaigou]

The reason that many of the values don't have a value listed is because the styles are partially written in Cascading Style Sheets.

I get that, and there are ways around that (and usability issues regarding that as well), but that's for some other day.

The one issue is when a style does have the defaults coded into the wizard-parts, in which case, they're not blank. Hrm. Maybe I should revise post to suggest "leave as-is for default" ?