Help talk:User style

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 * 13:17, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable HTML attribute name)
 * 12:55, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick m (→Style depending on a parameter or variable)
 * 12:53, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick m (→CSS selectors)
 * 12:52, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick m (→Variable HTML attribute name)
 * 12:39, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (A HTML attribute name can be made variable. HTML Tidy removes attributes with unvalid names at the server side, so the result does not depend on a browser capability to ignore wrong attribute nam)
 * 12:28, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable HTML attribute name)
 * 12:26, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (====Variable HTML attribute====)
 * 12:09, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable style parameter name, with possible value &quot;class&quot;)
 * 12:06, 28 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id - w:en:Wikipedia:HiddenStructure)
 * 14:12, 25 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable style parameter value)
 * 14:08, 25 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable style parameter value)
 * 14:04, 25 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id - ====Variable style parameter value====)
 * 12:24, 16 January 2006 User:Fagan m (→CSS selectors -  added comma)
 * 10:24, 16 January 2006 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 19:26, 5 January 2006 User:HappyDog m (Repoint link to configuration settings index)
 * 08:31, 5 January 2006 User:84.245.178.84 (sp)
 * 05:06, 31 December 2005 User:Suisui m (Reverted edits by 216.27.128.180 to last version by Patrick)
 * 04:44, 31 December 2005 User:216.27.128.180
 * 13:20, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 13:16, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id - moved to MediaWiki talk:Common.css)
 * 12:54, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 12:43, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 12:35, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 12:17, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 12:05, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id)
 * 10:38, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick m (→Variable class or id)
 * 09:46, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Variable class or id - For example, &lt;nowiki&gt;a&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenStructure&quot;&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;c&lt;/nowiki&gt; gives a&lt;span class=&quot;hiddenStructure&quot;&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;c, the link does not work.)
 * 09:41, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick m (→Variable class or id)
 * 09:41, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Template parameters - ====Variable class or id====)
 * 09:37, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick m (→Template parameters)
 * 09:36, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Template parameters - Note that the few browsers which do not support CSS and ignore it, will, depending on application, give wrong results, not just a plain style:)
 * 09:30, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Template parameters - See also problem with CSS.)
 * 09:29, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Template parameters - See also [[Wikipedia_talk:Avoid_using_meta-templates#Section_.22Alternatives.22:_Problem_with_CSS|problem with CSS}}.)
 * 09:16, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (Unlike conditional templates, this works only for final display. The result (in the example either &quot;abc&quot; or &quot;&quot;) cannot be used in expressions for template names, parameter names, parameter values, etc)
 * 09:10, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→Template parameters - On Meta and the English Wikipedia it contains &quot;.hiddenStructure {display: none}&quot;. Thus)
 * 09:03, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (selected text can be displayed or not depending on a parameter. This is especialy useful for site-wide CSS applicable for all skins, as specified in MediaWiki:Common.css.)
 * 08:55, 27 December 2005 User:Patrick (→General - The defaults for all skins are in MediaWiki:Common.css. Other CSS pages are separate per skin.)
 * 01:29, 1 December 2005 User:Kinneyboy90 (→General)
 * 08:11, 27 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 03:48, 25 November 2005 User:Uncle G (Fixed capitalization of template name.)
 * 15:22, 10 November 2005 User:Patrick m (Reverted edits by 80.209.1.92 to last version by Who)
 * 09:38, 10 November 2005 User:80.209.1.92 (→Problems)
 * 05:34, 15 October 2005 User:Who (change cat)
 * 09:17, 13 October 2005 User:80.202.218.145 (Practicle example for removing an access key)
 * 09:10, 13 October 2005 User:80.202.218.145 (Reinserted example link, in corrected format)
 * 08:30, 13 October 2005 User:Gwicke (→Changing access keys - more elaboration)
 * 10:58, 3 October 2005 User:80.202.218.183 (removed nonsense link)
 * 10:57, 3 October 2005 User:80.202.218.183 (→General)
 * 14:24, 1 October 2005 User:85.224.231.141 (→CSS selectors - fix link)
 * 10:29, 17 September 2005 User:Gywst
 * 02:16, 17 September 2005 User:68.197.168.206
 * 15:43, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick (→Wikitext-controlled CSS - Cologne Blue specifies class='external' for each language, so it does not work for that skin.)
 * 15:30, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick m (→Wikitext-controlled CSS)
 * 15:22, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick m (→Wikitext-controlled CSS)
 * 15:16, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick (if a page contains a span element with class FA and id id,w:en:MediaWiki:Monobook.js specifies the style and title of elements of class interwiki-id, for controlling the CSS of interlangua)
 * 15:02, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick (a HTML element span without content can, through its class and id, provide parameters for JS specifying CSS for any parts of the page, see e.g. Link FA for controlling the CSS of interl)
 * 14:21, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick m (→Wikitext-controlled CSS)
 * 14:16, 13 September 2005 User:Patrick (CSS can be controlled through JS by wikitext. For example, the CSS of interlanguage links in the margin can be controlled by wikitext which is not rendered in-page, see e.g. w:en:Template:Link FA.)
 * 01:25, 13 September 2005 User:HappyDog (Nowhere does it actually tell you how to create your own CSS style, so I added basic instructions.)
 * 01:32, 8 September 2005 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position)
 * 01:26, 8 September 2005 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position - oops)
 * 01:24, 8 September 2005 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position)
 * 01:23, 8 September 2005 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position)
 * 01:23, 8 September 2005 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position - maybe someone will see it here?)
 * 10:30, 31 August 2005 User:62.252.224.15 (Typos)
 * 08:49, 4 August 2005 User:Danielwang (→Samples - use &quot;:link&quot; instead of &quot;a&quot;)
 * 08:35, 4 August 2005 User:Danielwang (→CSS selectors - Never use &quot;a&quot;, use &quot;:link&quot; instead. (And whoever said that &lt;a name=&gt;&lt;/a&gt; always have no content?))
 * 21:09, 2 August 2005 User:84.162.204.1
 * 21:08, 2 August 2005 User:84.162.204.1
 * 18:14, 30 July 2005 User:Datrio m (Reverted edits by 80.3.160.7 to last version by DCLXVI)
 * 18:13, 30 July 2005 User:80.3.160.7
 * 04:31, 10 July 2005 User:DCLXVI (→Major style blocks - p-nav -&gt; p-navigation)
 * 08:57, 22 June 2005 User:62.175.230.18
 * 08:55, 22 June 2005 User:62.175.230.18
 * 08:54, 22 June 2005 User:62.175.230.18
 * 01:20, 16 June 2005 User:Omegatron (some of us need these)
 * 07:03, 15 June 2005 User:PEZ (→See also - Added link to info about settings variables enabling this feature)
 * 04:51, 12 June 2005 User:Patrick m (→Major style blocks)
 * 04:43, 12 June 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - Customization:Explaining skins)
 * 04:40, 12 June 2005 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - ==== Major style blocks ==== copied from Customization:Explaining Skins)
 * 00:57, 29 May 2005 User:68.67.170.26 (→Samples -  add narrower-content sample)
 * 18:05, 18 May 2005 User:24.26.179.194 (→Moving categories to top - &quot;clear: right&quot; helps correct formatting problems when using this)
 * 07:54, 27 April 2005 User:134.58.253.114 (→General)
 * 07:52, 27 April 2005 User:134.58.253.114 (→General)
 * 15:20, 21 April 2005 User:AnyFile
 * 20:58, 19 April 2005 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 11:20, 19 April 2005 User:AnyFile (→See also)
 * 00:30, 30 March 2005 User:Astronouth7303 (→See also - Added langs to template.)
 * 21:53, 29 March 2005 User:Shir
 * 13:39, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 13:37, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick m
 * 13:30, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick (→See also - *w:Cascading Style Sheets)
 * 13:28, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick m (→Css selectors)
 * 13:24, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - As far as possible examples are given, which show the result for the current  style settings:)
 * 13:19, 22 March 2005 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - update)
 * 19:01, 13 March 2005 User:217.159.67.206 (→General)
 * 13:52, 23 February 2005 User:153.106.49.64 (→Edit page)
 * 14:11, 2 February 2005 User:Verdlanco m (changed the &quot;skin&quot; link)
 * 21:05, 30 January 2005 User:DanielVonEhren m (sp)
 * 03:59, 19 December 2004 User:216.177.2.112 (→Samples)
 * 06:49, 29 October 2004 User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette m (Reverted edits by 221.194.206.191 to last version by 67.173.247.242)
 * 05:43, 29 October 2004 User:221.194.206.191
 * 22:09, 27 October 2004 User:67.173.247.242 (→General - briefly define skin, css)
 * 20:40, 15 October 2004 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position - NO one cares about this???)
 * 10:33, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 10:33, 15 October 2004 User:Patrick (→General - looks like this has changed)
 * 18:58, 2 October 2004 User:66.245.206.239
 * 11:03, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson m (stupid space at beginning of line error, I'm never going to learn, for my own wiki i don't want that &quot;feature&quot;!!!)
 * 11:01, 23 September 2004 User:AaronPeterson ( and a brief description before the page toc)
 * 09:42, 10 September 2004 User:Patrick m (dummy edit to put it on the new category page)
 * 04:46, 29 August 2004 User:24.26.179.194 (→Moving categories to top)
 * 17:41, 20 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css in user subpages vs. css in a local file - Some computers, e.g. in internet cafes, do not allow users to set preferences for the browser. In that case the user subpages allow the setting of a)
 * 06:35, 20 August 2004 User:Patrick (→General -The name of the style directory is set on installation, see LocalSettings.php#Stylesheet_Location.)
 * 07:02, 17 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - class or id can be a template parameter, an element as template parameter does not work.)
 * 00:18, 17 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors -they used to be, and still are on sites that use an older version of the software, e.g. ; they can be styled referring to)
 * 22:19, 15 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - *img.tex TeX image)
 * 22:07, 15 August 2004 User:Patrick (→General - See also Help:Sitewide css wiki page.)
 * 09:42, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css selectors)
 * 09:28, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors -*a:link, a:visited - together these are all the links, as opposed to &quot;a&quot; elements which are just anchors - example: help:index)
 * 09:12, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors - misc)
 * 09:04, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick (Css selectors)
 * 09:02, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Css selectors -a[href =&quot;full url &quot;] { .. })
 * 08:48, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Classes)
 * 07:47, 14 August 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 13:14, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes - color-code particular users (including oneself) and/or links to particular pages (creating a kind of alternative watchlist).)
 * 12:59, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes -color-code particular users (including oneself). This works in Opera, but not in IE.)
 * 11:09, 11 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 14:04, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 14:01, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Make the user toolbar a sidebox)
 * 13:55, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Classes)
 * 13:50, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes - *a - use this in addition to a:link and a:visited to distinguish an internal link from the &quot;Special page&quot; tab, which is not a link (see Help:Namespace#Tab_labels))
 * 13:42, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→General - The files in the style directory are for a given skin probably the same in each project.)
 * 13:39, 10 August 2004 User:Patrick (→See also - *Help:Namespace#Tab labels)
 * 21:45, 7 August 2004 User:Omegatron (→Samples)
 * 17:32, 7 August 2004 User:Omegatron (→Make the quickbar float / sideboxes have fixed position - please help me finish this!)
 * 17:20, 7 August 2004 User:Omegatron (→Samples - - →put scrollbar on pre sections instead of ugly cutoff/overlap in firefox)
 * 17:17, 7 August 2004 User:Omegatron (small tweaks of the personal tools box (use a border to see the differences))
 * 09:55, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 09:39, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick (→General)
 * 09:34, 7 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 00:35, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→General)
 * 00:28, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (The preview works here in a special way: it allows viewing of the margins of the page (not the contents) on the basis of the style info in the page, provided that the skin used is the skin for which t)
 * 00:12, 5 August 2004 User:Patrick (preview)
 * 20:11, 4 August 2004 User:Patrick m (→Edit page)
 * 20:08, 4 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes -Edit box: textarea#wpTextbox1, etc.)
 * 10:12, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes)
 * 09:20, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes -examples)
 * 09:02, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes)
 * 08:51, 3 August 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes -The elements, classes and id's relevant for the style of the page body include:)
 * 05:49, 31 July 2004 User:Patrick (misc; For &quot;MySkin&quot; there is no main.css applicable. However, confusingly, MediaWiki:Monobook.css is imported. (is this a BUG?))
 * 22:07, 27 July 2004 User:Patrick (→Print view tweaks - save ink and paper (ink is usually more expensive than paper))
 * 20:04, 27 July 2004 User:Omegatron (dont forget subpages)
 * 21:51, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Some JS links)
 * 21:46, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css Links)
 * 09:43, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css in user subpages vs. css in a local file)
 * 09:42, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (== Css in user subpages vs. css in a local file ==)
 * 09:36, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (js)
 * 09:17, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 08:49, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 08:47, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (For lines of CSS which should be different on different MediaWiki projects, e.g. for a different background color for easy distinction, clearly the local CSS can not be used; at least these lines shou)
 * 08:39, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick ((and does not depend on being logged in).)
 * 08:32, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 08:31, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick m (→See also)
 * 08:20, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (In addition or alternatively a local css can be set on the browser. If one uses multiple browsers, each can be set to a different CSS. Each applies to the whole world wide web, not just a MediaWiki pr)
 * 07:58, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (rm MediaWiki:standard.css,)
 * 07:53, 26 July 2004 User:Patrick (HTML source)
 * 10:58, 25 July 2004 User:61.95.133.170 (→Alternative)
 * 20:50, 23 July 2004 User:Jredmond (→Diff view styling -  added span.diffchange item)
 * 09:57, 23 July 2004 User:Patrick (Also you can change the classic skin; your subpage should be named User:username/ standard.css (and similar for the other skins).)
 * 17:45, 30 June 2004 User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (→See also - added a link to Skin projects)
 * 11:19, 26 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Alternative - A difference is that a local css is applicable for all Wikimedia projects and all other webpages.)
 * 11:08, 26 June 2004 User:Patrick (When the browser has been set to the option to ignore the font size specified in the page or external css, css commands regarding font size do not work when specified on a Wikimedia page. In that case)
 * 14:00, 24 June 2004 User:Gwicke (diff view styling sample: full-size font)
 * 15:33, 21 June 2004 User:Omegatron
 * 11:31, 16 June 2004 User:83.114.178.148 (interlanguage link (fr))
 * 22:05, 15 June 2004 User:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (→Moving category links)
 * 01:37, 14 June 2004 User:Gwicke (→Changing access keys - another example)
 * 22:20, 13 June 2004 User:Gwicke (→Changing access keys - update to ta array, changing/disabling access keys now easy)
 * 10:19, 13 June 2004 User:Patrick m (→Classes)
 * 10:17, 13 June 2004 User:Patrick (→Classes - (see the HTML source code of the webpage).)
 * 17:49, 12 June 2004 User:Patrick (The watchlist and Recent Changes use two classes: autocomment and new (broken links). This allows specifying separate colors and fonts for each class.)
 * 17:24, 12 June 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 17:24, 12 June 2004 User:Patrick m
 * 13:00, 12 June 2004 User:Patrick (In the monobook skin, you can now change any aspect of the UI specified in http://en.wikipedia.org/style/monobook/main.css and en:MediaWiki:Monobook.css or similar)
 * 01:59, 12 June 2004 User:Timwi (Moving categories to top)
 * 22:04, 4 June 2004 User:Nealmcb (js=&gt;javascript)
 * 08:30, 2 June 2004 User:Lupo m (mv image to correct section)
 * 17:45, 1 June 2004 User:Tillwe m (→Monobook menus with serif fonts in the content area)
 * 09:24, 1 June 2004 User:Plop m (→Samples - change the bg color for tables)
 * 07:18, 1 June 2004 User:Dori (→See also)
 * 21:33, 31 May 2004 User:82.32.36.152 (→Rounded corners in moz)
 * 21:23, 31 May 2004 User:Tillwe m
 * 21:22, 31 May 2004 User:Tillwe (moving category links)
 * 13:03, 31 May 2004 User:Patrick (MediaWiki User's Guide: Setting preferences)
 * 16:32, 30 May 2004 User:Patrick m (→Css)
 * 14:05, 30 May 2004 User:Tillwe (serif fonts with monobook)
 * 11:24, 30 May 2004 User:Patrick (Is this supposed to work in other skins? I tried standard, but it did not work.)
 * 01:00, 30 May 2004 User:DopefishJustin (→Samples)
 * 22:38, 29 May 2004 User:Cyrius (→Make the user toolbar a sidebox - fixed Safari)
 * 22:34, 29 May 2004 User:Cyrius (→Make the user toolbar a sidebox - +suppress person icon, note about testing)
 * 21:01, 29 May 2004 User:Cyrius (+Make the user toolbar a sidebox (ugly hack because I don't really know CSS))
 * 21:00, 25 May 2004 User:193.29.77.111
 * 12:15, 24 May 2004 User:Gwicke (→Javascript - + === Changing access keys ===)
 * 11:56, 24 May 2004 User:Gwicke m (→Javascript - subpage now)
 * 11:35, 24 May 2004 User:Gwicke (import from test)