css'ing about

[Brett_Tabke]

On your system prefs off your control panel, there is a new option:

Custom Style Sheet URL?
Full URL to CSS Sheet (max 200 chars)

Just mentioning it as we are doing some internal testing. I expect that option to remain, no matter what the outcome of the testing.

Feel free to point it at any of your fav css sheets. Funtionality is limited due to hard coding of many html based style tags, but some things are possible.

Some you can try:
[w3.org...]
[w3.org...]
[w3.org...]
[w3.org...]
[w3.org...]

[vkaryl]

OH HOW FUN! Thank you kind sir, whatta guy, now got to mess with my own....

"Two thumbs up"....

[Edit: Oh, and one presumes you'd like bug reports, if any?]

[Brett_Tabke]

nothing to bug report on - at this time... just heading those comments off at the pass. Things will progress slowly.

For now - those that like to play, can play with 2 classes :

me: message even
mo message odd

[vkaryl]

Hmmm. 'kay, thanks, will try it when I have time.... I did change it to "oldstyle" which loads (for me) materially faster than previously.

[encyclo]

Sounds great Brett, I'll play with it a bit later when I have a bit of time.

One thing, though - I know you're not looking for bug reports, but without any stylesheet specified (and no change in system preferences on my part) the default template is now showing extra white space between various page elements: on the home.htm page, extra space between forum titles and descriptions, extra space below h1 page titles, and an extra blank line at the top of each message. Let me know if you need a screenshot. Browser: Firefox 1.0 Linux.

[Brett_Tabke]

Classes:
mo: message odd. Every other msg in a thread will be this style.
me: message even. Every other msg in a thread will be this style.

The above two classes can apply to html elements:
font, href, b, i, sub, sup, center, pre, code, hr, li, ul, ol, blockquote, strong, fixed

trme: table row message even class. (applies to <tr> for message.
trmo: table row message odd class.

Other Classes:
mered: red color font in posts with marker [red] (these apply to font command only)
meblue, same as red above, but blue.
megreen, same as red above, but green.
meyellow, same as red above, but yellow.

Font size classes:
In BestBBS, we can specify fonts with the style ...[6] for those font sizes.
The following classes are applied to those size changes:
me1, me2, me3, me4, me5, me6 respectively.

"mefixed" applies to the fixed size font (normally courier).

Within BestBBS, we can quote text with the [quote] operator. The following classes apply to that quoted section

qtable : class for table declaration.
qtr: table row declaration.
qtd: table data declaration.
qf: quoted font.

pt: Poster Table. Applies to TR and TD (table behind the posters name on every message)

pf: Poster Font.
pft: Poster Font Title.
mtf: Message Time font. Applies to time font.

ib: info bar. Bar where "new msg" and "Reply msg" buttons are. Includes message links.
(includes <table) and font)

ob: options bar. (bar where "forum options, library..etc are printed).

dfn: discussion forum name (name). Name of forum at top of thread
mto: message thread options. Options at bottom of thread.

[1]edited by: Brett_Tabke at 11:39 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2005]

[edited by: rogerd at 3:43 am (utc) on Feb. 14, 2005]
[edit reason] bb code [/edit]

[icedowl]

The extra blank lines are not to my liking. More scrolling, harder to read, etc. Browser is IE 6.0

[encyclo]

The extra blank lines are not to my liking.

Oh, if it is deliberate, that's fine - I like the new style. It gives the home.htm page more "breathing room" and makes the page less crowded, even if longer.

[Chndru]

great. thanks, brett.

[limbo]

Nice!

I imagine I wont be getting much work done today, what with this and tee off in 20 mins....

[Brett_Tabke]

Didn't mean to be short vkaryl, just need to get the house build before I get to the fixing just yet.

I have updated the class list above.

An example test css sheet (intentionally visually asaulting for seperation...) for now:

[webmasterworld.com...]

The emphasis is on the thread displays...

[vkaryl]

Oh - wasn't a problem, Brett! I was just fossicking about right then on something else, and wasn't quite sure exactly to what your statement referred.

And it still loads way faster for me than "vanilla WebmasterWorld"!

[vkaryl]

Y'know what, Brett? That link for the "example.css" is a great place to start, seeing as I've got way too much on my plate all of a sudden to write my own css for here - got drafted to help out with a game-system expansions sort of thing, and it's looking like "katie bar the door"!

I'll just tweak some stuff on that one, and call it good. I'll let you know if I have problems.

Thanks!