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Make7

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3. Well, the admins fixed the style sheet...
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 05:07 PM
Sep 2012

... so you don't have to figure out how to do user style sheets if you don't want to. Although I should point out how useful they can be for modifying the appearance of websites to what you want.

Some of things I am doing with user style sheets on DU3:

  • hiding signatures
  • adding a rounded border and drop shadow to excerpt boxes
  • changing the 'edited text' message color and location (made it gray and right justified)
  • hiding the post count and associated icons by the username in posts
  • etc.
Some browsers make it really easy to implement user style sheets (e.g. Opera), other browsers are pretty easy to do them with add-ons (e.g. FireFox and Stylish), and some seem to want to make it as difficult for me as possible.

Anyway, what you really need in order to do user style sheets effectively is a decent knowledge of cascading style sheets - or someone with that knowledge to help you out. Fortunately the admins here are using external style sheets for the vast majority of formatting on this website - which means it is possible to change how lots of things appear in your browser with user style sheets.

Don't like the color of the 'edited post' message? Change it.  Don't like that excerpts aren't indented anymore? Change it.  Don't like rambling responses to your posts? Umm... can't help you with that one.

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