The web preferences resembles the settings of most web browsers. Use these preferences to define how DEVONthink's displays HTML-based documents browsing web pages.

Web Content: These settings define how DEVONthink treats special web contents:

- Enable ...: Check these options to use installed third-party plugins, Java applets, or JavaScript scripts used by a web page.
- Block ...: Check Block pop-up windows to block pop-up windows, which are often advertisements; check Only automatic JavaScript windows to block only pop-up windows opened by JavaScript. Uncheck this option if the web page you're visiting uses pop-up windows for actual content. (Some web content management systems do this.) Check Block zooming to keep web sites from automatically zooming windows to full size. Check Block advertisement to attempt to block advertisements when possible.
- Zoom text only: Magnify only the text, not the images when using the View > Zoom commands.

Images: These settings define how DEVONthink displays graphics in web pages:

- Display images when the page opens: Check this option to display web pages with images. Just remember, if unchecked, you may miss some information.
- Animate images, Loop animation: Check these options to run web graphics animations and to run animated graphics in a loop.
- Scale images to fit: Check this option to scale (large) images to fit the current window.

Accept Cookies: "Cookies" are little text files with information that web pages store on your computer used to recognize you as a returning customer, among other things. While most are harmless, you may want to control what is being stored on your hard disk.

- Always: Accept all cookies.
- Never: Don't accept any cookies.
- Only from sites you navigate to: Accept cookies, but only from web sites you navigate to (not from other sites, such as ad trackers).
- Delete cookies on quit: Delete all stored cookies when you quit DEVONthink.

Fonts: Set the fonts you want to use for displaying web pages; set separately for variable-width and fixed-width text.

Note: Hold the `⌥︎` Option key to restore the default fonts.

Style Sheet: Select a custom stylesheet to be applied to HTML-based content with no specified styling. Store your own stylesheets in `~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink/StyleSheets`. Be aware this could lead to displaying undesirable styling in some cases.

Text Encoding: Select your desired text encoding for displaying web pages. Automatic tries to choose the best available encoding. If this does not work for you, choose a more appropriate text encoding for your language group.