updated the custom text box to specify frontSize through document values.

4 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
index aa888b34a..ccfc37d4e 100644
--- a/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/DocComponent.tsx
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ export function ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<P extends ViewBoxAnnotatableProps, T
 
         styleFromLayoutString = (scale: number) => {
             const style: { [key: string]: any } = {};
-            const divKeys = ["width", "height", "background", "top", "position"];
+            const divKeys = ["width", "height", "fontSize", "left", "background", "top", "position"];
             const replacer = (match: any, expr: string, offset: any, string: any) => { // bcz: this executes a script to convert a property expression string:  { script }  into a value
                 return ScriptField.MakeFunction(expr, { self: Doc.name, this: Doc.name, scale: "number" })?.script.run({ self: this.rootDoc, this: this.layoutDoc, scale }).result as string || "";
             };
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
index 4ec5bc534..0073ff77f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/FieldView.tsx
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export interface FieldViewProps {
     ChromeHeight?: () => number;
     childLayoutTemplate?: () => Opt<Doc>;
     // properties intended to be used from within layout strings (otherwise use the function equivalents that work more efficiently with React)
+    fontSize?: number;
     height?: number;
     width?: number;
     background?: string;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.scss b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.scss
index 23cf1e79b..09dfb349f 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.scss
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/DashFieldView.scss
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     .dashFieldView-labelSpan {
         position: relative;
         display: inline-block;
-        font-size: small;
+        font-weight: normal;
     }
     .dashFieldView-fieldSpan {
         min-width: 20px;
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
         position: relative;
         display: inline;
         background-color: rgba(155, 155, 155, 0.24);
+        font-weight: bold;
         span {
             min-width: 100%;
             display: inline-block;
diff --git a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
index 31d471571..c6b4775c9 100644
--- a/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
+++ b/src/client/views/nodes/formattedText/FormattedTextBox.tsx
@@ -1536,17 +1536,17 @@ export class FormattedTextBox extends ViewBoxAnnotatableComponent<(FieldViewProp
                     transformOrigin: "top left",
                     width: `${100 / scale}%`,
                     height: `calc(${100 / scale}% - ${this.props.ChromeHeight?.() || 0}px)`,
-                    ...this.styleFromLayoutString(scale)
+                    ...this.styleFromLayoutString(scale)   // this converts any expressions in the format string to style props.  e.g., <FormattedTextBox height='{this._headerHeight}px' >
                 }}>
                 <div className={`formattedTextBox-cont`} ref={this._ref}
                     style={{
                         overflow: this.layoutDoc._autoHeight ? "hidden" : undefined,
                         width: "100%",
-                        height: this.props.height ? this.props.height : this.layoutDoc._autoHeight && this.props.renderDepth ? "max-content" : undefined,
+                        height: this.props.height || (this.layoutDoc._autoHeight && this.props.renderDepth ? "max-content" : undefined),
                         background: Doc.UserDoc().renderStyle === "comic" ? "transparent" : this.props.background ? this.props.background : StrCast(this.layoutDoc[this.props.fieldKey + "-backgroundColor"], this.props.hideOnLeave ? "rgba(0,0,0 ,0.4)" : ""),
                         color: this.props.color ? this.props.color : StrCast(this.layoutDoc[this.props.fieldKey + "-color"], this.props.hideOnLeave ? "white" : "inherit"),
                         pointerEvents: interactive ? undefined : "none",
-                        fontSize: Cast(this.layoutDoc._fontSize, "string", null),
+                        fontSize: this.props.fontSize || Cast(this.layoutDoc._fontSize, "string", null),
                         fontWeight: Cast(this.layoutDoc._fontWeight, "number", null),
                         fontFamily: StrCast(this.layoutDoc._fontFamily, "inherit"),
                     }}