[Wikia-l] A new way to style skins

Fri Feb 29 00:37:10 UTC 2008

Yeah, I think the specific case that Pan Sola brought up was that he  
wanted to tighten up the spacing between the widgets on one of the  
skins but not the other. But, these classes appear in the body tag all  
the time, even on custom themes.

-Christian

On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Victor wrote:

> So just to clarify, wikiaSkinMonaco is for use on the pre-done  
> styles IE: Brick/Sapphire etc. that people want to alter slightly?
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Christian Williams <christian at wikia.com 
> > wrote:
> Sorry, big ups to Dantman also for suggesting this. I'm forgetful. :)
>
> The skins with dark backgrounds one probably isn't as easy, because  
> a dark background could be created in MediaWiki:Monaco.css and I  
> wouldn't know about it while rendering the body tag. The php that  
> renders the skin would have to either check a preference that is set  
> to "this has a dark background, set 'skin-dark' in the body tag" or  
> would have to parse a mediawiki article on each load to pull in any  
> custom classes. Anyway, the addition of wikiaSkinMonaco, etc was a 2  
> minute job that hopefully moves customization options in the right  
> direction.
>
> -Christian
>
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:11 PM, DanTMan wrote:
>
>> T_T I'm invisible aren't I? Either that or really easy to not  
>> notice...
>>
>> Ages ago I suggested body tags... Cept in the form:
>> skin-name and theme-name as well as an idea for mod-* tags to deal  
>> with things like skins with dark backgrounds.
>> ((Still think skin-monobook, skin-quartz, skin-monaco, theme- 
>> custom, theme-brick, etc... would be better. Especially since it  
>> keeps in line with the standard naming of other body tags...))
>> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
>> -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
>> -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
>> -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
>> Christian Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> The <body> tag of Monobook, Quartz, and Monaco have an additional  
>>> css
>>> class this morning. You can use the "wikiaSkinMonobook",
>>> "wikiaSkinQuartz", and "wikiaSkinMonaco" classes to target specific
>>> skins while writing styles in MediaWiki:Common.css.
>>>
>>> The additional CSS class in the body tag was suggested to me by Pan
>>> Sola for making minor margin tweaks to the various skins,  
>>> independent
>>> of what skin was set as default. Please remember that Common.css is
>>> loaded for every skin, every time. In customizing a theme for your
>>> wiki, it's still best to choose one of the Custom options in the  
>>> skin
>>> chooser and use MediaWiki:Quartz.css or MediaWiki:Monaco.css to
>>> specify the styles.
>>>
>>> -Christian
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