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Make7

(8,543 posts)
1. The problem seems to be the main.css style sheet.
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 02:19 PM
Sep 2012

Specifically this part:

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1.5em; border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #999999;"][font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"]body {[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] font-size: .8125em; /* 13px (see note above) */[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] text-align: center;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] margin: 0px auto 0px auto;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] padding: 0px;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] background-color: #FFFFFF;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] position: relative;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] z-index: 0;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] [font style="background-color:#ffff66;"]overflow: scroll;[/font][/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"]}[/font]
The highlighted declaration is new. Anyone that is comfortable setting up a user style sheet or is using a browser add-on to do user styles can fix the issue by adding the following:

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1.5em; border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #999999;"][font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"]body {[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"] overflow:visible !important;[/font]
[font style="font-size:1.07em; font-family:monospace; white-space:pre;"]}[/font]
Tested in Opera (since it is so easy to do user style sheets). I probably will do some testing in other browsers shortly, but I doubt that is even necessary.

Kali

(54,990 posts)
2. I did not notice when it went away, but it is gone for me now.
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 04:26 PM
Sep 2012

I understood you directions for fixing spell check in the subject line but THAT seems out of my realm

Make7

(8,543 posts)
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.

[font style="font-variant:small-caps;"]-Make7[/font]

Kali

(54,990 posts)
4. thanks, it helps my slow learning to even know about this stuff
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 05:12 PM
Sep 2012

and I don't mind the ramble at all, especially if a touch of humor is added as it was

Grateful for Hope

(39,320 posts)
5. As usual, amazing information, Make7
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 10:08 PM
Sep 2012

While I currently program for a living, I am clueless when it comes to cascading style sheets. Am going to do some studying here as I would really like to customize my DU view.

Thanks for this invaluable advice.

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