Making Westlaw Readable
I mainly use Westlaw for legal research, but have long found it really really ugly:
However, with a bit of custom CSS, I’ve managed to make it suck dramatically less:
By creating a CSS file and pointing Safari (Firefox should work equally well) at it, I’ve gotten a more readable serif font, more open line spacing, and less obtrusive inline footnote links. Here are my style rules:
div#mDocumentText_ctl00_mContainer {
font-family: Times;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 150%;
text-align: justify;
margin-left: 2em;
margin-right: 2em;
}
div#mDocumentText_ctl00_mContainer a[href*="FNF"]{
position: relative; top: -0.5em; font-size: 70%;
}
It seems mDocumentText_ctl00_mContainer is Westlaw’s div ID for displaying content in the main window, so these styles won’t affect any other pages. Links to footnotes contain “FNF” in the URL, allowing me to filter what links I cause to be superscripted.
