# Answer NOT typed: change font size? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [January 31, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992 "2023-01-31T08:09:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![auntanki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@auntanki](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/auntanki)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/1 "2023-01-31T08:10:00Z")
![notTypedFontSize](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/2X/3/3cc21739a4bee30307e3740a829d0301286dbda0.jpeg) Mostly, I do NOT type anything while the question is displayed; I’d like the text displayed as answer slightly bigger. In Styling, I tried different things with `input#typeans`, `#typeans`, `.typeMissed` etc; haven’t been able to change text size yet. How do I get to that text that’s displayed as answer when nothing was previously typed into the question type box? Thanks 😉 ---
**Author:** ![popyoung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/popyoung/32/13889_2.png) [@popyoung](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/popyoung)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/2 "2023-01-31T13:13:12Z")
It depends on the editing font size in the field of its note type. I inspected the source code, and there seems to be no direct way to change it. As a alternative, you can use ‘transform: scale’ to change it. ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/3 "2023-02-01T07:49:10Z")
> [@Behavior when not typing anything in](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/behavior-when-not-typing-anything-in/26887): > > Hide the typing comparison if the user hits enter without typing anything. Just emitting the field in a naked div breaks existing CSS rules. Now that I remember, I already did this 2.5 years ago [like this here](https://github.com/ankitects/anki/pull/680/commits/83e69ae4c6903ba31f918c15a4ee53779a94b556). So just changing it to… output = "\" + expected + "\" … works. ---
**Author:** ![auntanki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@auntanki](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/auntanki)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/4 "2023-02-02T09:00:46Z")
Thanks for replying … 😉 (which parts exactly would have to be copied into the template … wonders the noob 😉 ) Not a feature request, just a thought: How about giving a **little bit of TLC** to this whole ‘Type Answer’ thing? A while back, the ‘ **Little Pirate** ’ was friendly enough to give me some [ready-to-paste code](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/type-answer-ignore-an-empty-type-answer-box/20984) to get rid of those annoying arrows that showed up even if nothing was typed. Couldn’t this become the default behavior? I’d reckon that if someone uses `type:answer`, they wouldn’t really want to type in the answer **each and every time** , just having the option is good enough … Maybe it’s just me, but I do find it annoying if the postitions of the displayed answers differ considerably (see [screenshot in old post](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/type-answer-ignore-an-empty-type-answer-box/20984)) depending on whether or not the answer was typed. Anyway, for now, I find that the font size is not so much off the mark after all, and I won’t change anything … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/5 "2023-02-02T11:16:54Z")
The arrow was already removed in the no-type case, as can be seen from your screenshot above. Showing the text in a different font when no input was not the best decision, and this behaviour will change in the next beta. ---
**Author:** ![auntanki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@auntanki](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/auntanki)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 5:50pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/6 "2023-02-02T17:50:39Z")
> The arrow was already removed […] Only because of [Little Pirate’s lines of code](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/type-answer-ignore-an-empty-type-answer-box/20984/5); if it wasn’t for those, there’d be arrows … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/dae/32/65_2.png) [@dae](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/dae)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/7 "2023-02-03T05:46:50Z")
If you’re using 2.1.57, there should be no arrow. ---
**Author:** ![auntanki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@auntanki](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/auntanki)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 7:36am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/8 "2023-02-04T07:36:45Z")
Oops; thanks for pointing that out! Cool … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/answer-not-typed-change-font-size/26992/9 "2023-03-06T07:37:06Z")
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