Posted on 09/28/2001 3:11:48 AM PDT by John Robinson
A few changes have been made to the forum over the past couple days.
This is a technological preview and is geared for a technical audience. At a later date a kinder gentler interface will be created.
BODY { BACKGROUND-COLOR: ivory } EM { FONT-STYLE: normal; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeee00 } BLOCKQUOTE { FONT-FAMILY: "Bookman Old Style" } BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE { BORDER-TOP: black thin solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 1%; PADDING-TOP: 1%; BORDER-BOTTOM: black thin solid; FONT-STYLE: italic }
Nah, don't sweat it bud. I'm starting to get the hang of the new look. 'preciate the offer tho.
Callahan
I have come up with a CSS sheet that does eliminate the italics from the blockquotes, and does (with the limitation listed above, and an unresolvable problem with the right margin) restore proper margins to FReeper non-blockquoted and 2 levels of FReeper blockquoted text. It does work in Netscape 4.77, but it does not work in IE 6. It may or may not work in Netscape 6.x (IMHO, that loads too slow to be of use outside of multi-voting online polls). If you're interested in the CSS code; it follows:
steveegg's homemade blockquote "Fix" for Netscape 4.x users (IE users can use this, just use the numbers in parentheses, and I offer no guarantees to Netscape 6.x users)
BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: -40;
}
BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: -5;
}
BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: 25;
}
BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: 0px;
}
BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: 35px;
}
BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE
{
margin-left: 70px;
}
BTW, I nuked the blue line people were getting by default. If you want it back, I can install it for you. (per user customizations really rock.)
My threads are currently showing with an Ivory background, and the blockquotes have black lines above and below the text.
Whatever happened to that nice blue line that you put on all blockquotes, though? I really liked it, and was looking forward to using it. Is there a way to put it back?
YOU really rock, sir.
If it's something you have to do ... forget it. If not, I'll figure it out (once I've finished catching up on this thread).
Thanks again, John. You're the best.
BASE HREF is now filtered. However, if you fill in the source url of the article, the posting program will insert that as a BASE HREF before the article text.
The indents are here to stay. They actually look a lot better in the new forum -- hopefully that will be coming next month sometime.
Patriotic FreeGuards From The NYC Suburbs,
Karen (KLT)
Here's what I stored in your style sheet, feel free to customize it.
EM { background-color: #FFFF00; font-style: normal } BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE { font-style: italic; border-left: thin solid blue; padding-left: 1% }
I used the " < " and " > " symbols, like always, in Netscape.
I used to see these occasionally; with the new changes they are everywhere...(!)
--Boris
It seems to be working for you now?
When I ran Netscape (English version) under Linux, I would see ? instead of curly quotes. I figured the Unix versions of Netscape didn't have a character for the curly quote, so replaced it with a ?.
I wonder if your problem is somehow related.
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