I know how to change the font of "Java editor" in Eclipse in menu Windows → Preferences → Appearance → Colors and Fonts, but I could not find an option for changing the font of "layout editor" for files like myLayout.xml or strings.xml.
Where is it?
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2tell me when you discover it.. – Ron Jun 25 '12 at 07:50
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See [this](http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp) It may helps you. – Praveenkumar Jun 25 '12 at 07:54
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Are you talking about Android? What's this layout editor you're talking about. Please go into more detail. – Brad Jun 25 '12 at 08:01
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The canonical question is *[How can I change font size in Eclipse for Java text editors?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4922305)* (but this does not necessarily make this a duplicate). – Peter Mortensen Jan 01 '17 at 18:02
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Use menu Windows → Preferences → Appearance → Colors and Fonts → Basic → Text Font. This is a common text font setting that is applied to XML file editors by default.
I also found this message.
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1Yes it does affect all editors which don't have own settings. – Aleksandr Kravets Jun 25 '12 at 08:09
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See edit to my answer, there are more such messages in google – Aleksandr Kravets Jun 25 '12 at 08:26
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First click apply button and then click ok button. Otherwise it dose not take affect. – Vahid Ghadiri Feb 04 '15 at 07:53
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For my Eclipse v4.4 (Luna) installation, the XML editor font size is changed under:
Menu Window → Preferences → General → Appearance → Colors and Fonts → Structured Text Editors → Structured Text Editor Text Font.
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This is the correct answer. `Structured Text Editor Text Font` is used by the XML editor. (By default it is set to the basic `Text Font`.) – Markus Pscheidt Jan 09 '15 at 13:40
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1Unfortunately that doesn't work in Eclipse IDE for Enterprise Java Developers for Version: 2019-06 (4.12.0) – NikolaS Jun 25 '20 at 08:30
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I had to expand General to get to Appearance... I figured it out in about 3.2 seconds, but just in case anyone wants to save that 3.2 seconds:
Windows-> General -> Preferences-> Appearance-> Colors and Fonts-> Basic -> TextFont -> Edit...
This is in Eclipse IDE for Android Developers v23.0.2. I'm pretty sure this changes all font sizes for everything in the editor.. ? But I'm assuming if you want XML font to be bigger, you want all files to be that font size.
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I wanted to set bold font for XML attribute values in XML editor. It is in Window -> Preferences -> XML -> XML Files -> Editor -> Syntax Coloring.
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