WYSIWYG editor and default font

The article by Mitchell Harper on building an html editor is great.

Is it possible to change the default font that is used in the rich text window? I have tried applying a style to it either through the id, like this:

#iView {font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;}

or through the local style tag like this:

<iframe id="iView" style="width: 415px; height:205px; font-family: Verdana;">

and these are not working.

I don't want to add a font tag to the actual text, I just want it to appear in Verdana in the window.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sheri

this works for me

iView.document.body.style.fontFamily = "Courier"
iView.document.body.style.fontSize = "10pt"
iView.document.body.bgColor = '#FFFFCC';
iView.document.body.text = '#000000';

the default font is controled by windows defaults in your prefrences.

Thanks for the speedy responses!

Alazan, can you tell me where you put that block of code in the doc? I have tried it in several different places and it doesn't seem to have an effect.

Ben, I see that it is controlled by the IE preferences. Does this mean that I cannot programatically override it on the user's system?

Sheri

Sorry I forgot a couple of lines

iView.document.body.style.fontFamily = "Courier"
iView.document.body.style.fontSize = "10pt"
iView.document.body.bgColor = "";
iView.document.body.text = '#000000';

iText = iView.document.body.innerText;
iView.document.body.innerHTML = iText;

Alazan is right ...

Yep, I got this working yesterday! Thanks so much Alazan!

Sheri