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Template:Phh:User style

The user can customize fonts, colors, positions of links in the margins, and many other things! This is done through custom Cascading Style Sheets stored in subpages of the user's "User" page.

E.g. To create your own css modifications for the default monobook skin, create a page at Special:Mypage/monobook.css containing the CSS you want to use.

Contents

General

Note: In the default configuration, any User Style code will be ignored. To enable User Style, the following two settings have to be enabled through LocalSettings.php:

$wgAllowUserJs  = true;
$wgAllowUserCss = true;

For each user-definable style, a skin is first selected, and a corresponding Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). For each skin, the user can make various choices regarding fonts, colors, positions of links in the margin, etc. CSS is specified with reference to selectors [1]: HTML elements, classes and id's specified in the HTML code. Accordingly, what the possibilities are for each skin can be seen by looking at the HTML source code of a page, in particular looking at these classes and id's: the more there are, the more versatility there is.

The defaults for all skins are in MediaWiki:Common.css. Other CSS pages are separate per skin. For example, in the English Wikipedia the defaults are in

and here on Meta we have:

The files in the style directory are for a given skin probably the same in each project. The name of the style directory is set on installation, see LocalSettings.php#Stylesheet_Location.

In the monobook skin, you can change any aspect of the UI specified in http://en.wikipedia.org/style/monobook/main.css and en:MediaWiki:Monobook.css or similar using your own JavaScript or CSS. The changes are in subpages of your user page, which, e.g. for Monobook on this project, can be reached through the links Special:Mypage/monobook.css and Special:Mypage/monobook.js.

Also you can change the classic skin; your subpages should be named User:username/ standard.css and User:username/ standard.js (and similar for the other skins).

Just enter some css/js in that page. The preview of JS does not work, and that of CSS works 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 the page applies. This has limitations. E.g., one can preview how links in the margin will look, but these may not be of all the types one would want to check. After saving, while still on the page or while on any other page, do a forced reload (shift-reload/ctrl-f5) to get the new files.

The HTML source contains lines like

<script type="text/javascript"
src="/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:username/standard.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript">
</script>
@import "/style/wikistandard.css";
@import "/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:username/standard.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";

for the project-wide CSS for the particular skin (in this case here on Meta referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/style/wikistandard.css ) and the personal JS and CSS for a particular skin.

Thus the server provides HTML referring to the CSS and JS files, but it does not do any interpretation of their content. Hence, for example, [[a]] is not interpreted as a link. The interpretation is done by the browser, depending on its capabilities and settings.

For "MySkin" there is no main.css applicable. The applicable personal css page is User:username/ myskin.css (all lowercase!).

CSS

CSS in user subpages vs. css in a local file

In addition to the above, 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 project (and does not depend on being logged in). However, a setting only affects other webpages if they use the same CSS selector; e.g. a setting for the selector a.extiw affects fewer pages on the web than one for h2 (but it affects at least all MediaWiki projects, not just one).

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 should be put in the user subpages.

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 user style anyway.

When the browser has been set to the option to ignore the font size specified in the webpage or external CSS, CSS lines regarding font size have to be put in the local CSS.

CSS selectors

The CSS selectors, expressed in terms of elements, classes and id's, relevant for the style of the page body include the following. As far as possible, examples are given, which show the result for the current style settings:

  • :link - links - example: help:index ; default: help:index (See a vs :link)
  • :link:link
  • :link:visited
  • :link#contentTop
  • :link.external - http://example ; default: http://example
  • :link.extiw – interwiki link in page body - en:example ; default: en:example
  • :link.image – link from full image to image description page
  • :link.internal – link to file itself (Media:), and links from thumbnail and magnifying glass icon to image description page (note that color and font size specified for a.internal are only applicable in the first case) - Media:example
  • :link.new example ; default: example
  • .allpagesredirect - abc - redirects in Special:Allpages and Special:Prefixindex
  • body.ns-0, ..., body.ns-15 (namespaces)
  • div#bodyContent
  • div#column-content
  • div#editsection
  • div#globalWrapper
  • div#tocindent
  • div.tocline
  • h1.firstHeading
  • h2
  • h3
  • img.tex TeX image
  • small - example
  • table.toc

Normal internal links are not in class internal (they used to be, and still are on sites that use an older version of the software, e.g. [2]); they can be styled referring to :link and :link:visited, in general, after which styling of :link.extiw etc. can provide for exceptions to this general style for links.

For interlanguage links:

  • #p-lang a

One may also have the style depend on the value of an attribute, e.g. with the selectors:

  • :link[title ="User:username"]
  • :link[title ="pagename"]
  • :link[href ="full url "]

to color-code or highlight particular users (including oneself) and/or links to particular pages (like the bolding of watched pages on Recent Changes). This works in Opera, but not in IE. See also Help:Watching pages#CSS.

The watchlist and Recent Changes use two classes:

  • autocomment
    example
  • new (see below)

The page history has classes autocomment and:

  • user
  • minor

Thus the font specified for user applies in the page history, but not in the watchlist or Recent Changes.

Edit page

  • Edit box: textarea#wpTextbox1
example1
  • Edit summary box: input#wpSummary
example2

Major style blocks

See Customization:Explaining_skins#Major_style_blocks_by_name

Non-display

One extreme "style" for a text is not displaying it, with

.classname {display: none}
#id {display: none}

etc.

Non-displayed links do not work (as opposed to links in a very small font).

It cannot be used to remove text in expressions for template names, parameter names, parameter values, page names in links, etc.

On Meta MediaWiki:Common.css contains

".hiddenStructure {display: none}".

Style depending on a parameter or variable

Variable class or id

A class or id can depend on the result produced by a template or on a template parameter, e.g. class="abc{{{1|def}}}". For one or more of the possible class names the style of that class can be defined. If the class is undefined it is ignored, so the standard style is used.

In the simplest case we have e.g. class="abc{{{1}}}" and define class abcdef. If the parameter value is "def" it applies.

If a page for general use only makes sense when styles are defined for certain classes, then these have to be specified in the page MediaWiki:Common.css, which applies for all users and all skins, as far as not overridden. In this project:

/*

Common CSS for all skins

Notice to Administrators!

Please note that due to caching effects any April Fools' joke placed here can last for several days! So will any block resulting from such actions.

Any changes to Monobook.css or Common.css should be first proposed to Wikipedia:Village Pump.

Always check with the W3C CSS Validation Service (CVS version) after any changes.

Thank you.

(In Mozilla and Opera, you can test style changes dynamically with the test styles bookmarklet from squarefree.com. It pops up a window for adding style rules, and updates the page as you type.)

See also the catalogue of CSS classes.

*/

/* Main page fixes */
.interwiki-completelist {
    font-weight: bold;
}

/* make the list of references look smaller */
ol.references {
   font-size: 100%;
}

.references-small { font-size: 90%;}

/* VALIDATOR NOTICE: the following is correct, but the W3C validator doesn't accept it */
/* -moz-* is a vendor-specific extension (CSS 2.1 4.1.2.1) */
/* column-count is from the CSS3 module "CSS Multi-column Layout" */
/* Please ignore any validator errors caused by these two lines */
.references-2column {
  font-size: 90%;
  -moz-column-count:2;
  column-count:2;
}

.same-bg { background: none }

/* Highlight clicked reference in blue to help navigation */

ol.references > li:target {
 background-color: #DEF;
}

sup.reference:target { 
  background-color: #DEF;
}

/* wikitable/prettytable class for skinning normal tables */

table.wikitable,
table.prettytable {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
  background: #f9f9f9;
  border: 1px #aaa solid;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

table.wikitable th, table.wikitable td,
table.prettytable th, table.prettytable td {
  border: 1px #aaa solid;
  padding: 0.2em;
}

table.wikitable th,
table.prettytable th {
  background: #f2f2f2;
  text-align: center;
}

table.wikitable caption,
table.prettytable caption {
  margin-left: inherit;
  margin-right: inherit;
  font-weight: bold;
}

/* default skin for navigation boxes */
table.navbox {
    background-color: #f9f9f9;
    border: 1px solid #aaa;
    clear: both;
    font-size: 90%;
    margin: 1em 0em 0em;
    padding: 2px;
    text-align: center;
    width: 100%;
}

table.navbox th {
    background-color: #ccf;
    padding-left: 1em;
    padding-right: 1em;
}

table.navbox tr:not(:first-child) th {
    background-color: #ddf;
}

@media print {
    .navbox {
        display: none;
    }
}

/* Infobox template style */

.infobox {
   border: 1px solid #aaa;
   background-color: #f9f9f9;
   color: black;
   margin-bottom: 0.5em;
   margin-left: 1em;
   padding: 0.2em;
   float: right;
   clear: right;
}
.infobox td,
.infobox th {
   vertical-align: top;
}
.infobox caption {
   font-size: larger;
   margin-left: inherit;
}
.infobox.bordered {
   border-collapse: collapse;
}
.infobox.bordered td,
.infobox.bordered th {
   border: 1px solid #aaa;
}
.infobox.bordered .borderless td,
.infobox.bordered .borderless th {
   border: 0;
}

.infobox.sisterproject {
   width: 20em;
   font-size: 90%;
}

@media print {
    .infobox.sisterproject {
        display: none;
    }
}

/* styles for bordered infobox with merged rows */
.infobox.bordered .mergedtoprow td,
.infobox.bordered .mergedtoprow th {
   border: 0;
   border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
   border-right: 1px solid #aaa;
}

.infobox.bordered .mergedrow td,
.infobox.bordered .mergedrow th {
   border: 0;
   border-right: 1px solid #aaa;
}


/* styles for geography infoboxes, e.g. countries, country subdivisions, cities, etc. */

.infobox.geography {
   text-align: left;
   border-collapse: collapse;
   line-height: 1.2em; 
   font-size: 90%;
}

.infobox.geography  td,
.infobox.geography  th {
   border-top: solid 1px #aaa;
   padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em;
}
.infobox.geography .mergedtoprow td,
.infobox.geography .mergedtoprow th {
   border-top: solid 1px #aaa;
   padding: 0.4em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;
}

.infobox.geography .mergedrow td,
.infobox.geography .mergedrow th {
      border: 0;
      padding: 0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;
}

.infobox.geography .mergedbottomrow td,
.infobox.geography .mergedbottomrow th {
   border-top: 0;
   border-bottom: solid 1px #aaa;
   padding: 0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em;
}

.infobox.geography .maptable td,
.infobox.geography .maptable th {
      border: 0;
      padding: 0;
}

/* Style for "notices" */
.notice {
    margin: 1em;
    padding: 0.2em;
}

#disambig {
    border-top: 1px solid #ccc; 
    border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}

#spoiler {
    border-top: 2px solid #ddd;
    border-bottom:2px solid #ddd;
}

/* Standard talk template style */

.Talk-Notice  {
    border: 1px solid #C0C090;
    background-color: #F8EABA;
    margin-bottom: 3px;
    width: 85%;
    border-spacing: 3px;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.Talk-Notice:after {
  content: "The CSS for this template should be changed. See [[Wikipedia:Template Standardisation]].";
}

/* Make template background appear correctly on all browsers */
.Talk-Notice td {
    background: inherit;
}

/* Persondata */
table.persondata {
    border: 1px solid #aaa;
    display: none;
    speak: none;
}
.persondata-label {
    color: #aaa;
}

/* Makes redirects appear in italics on [[Special:Allpages]] */
.allpagesredirect {
    font-style: italic;
}

/* Choose whether to have AD/BC dates or CE/BCE dates*/

/* First, the default : display both : See templates ADCE and BCEBC for how these are used*/
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: inline; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display: none; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE { display: none; }

/* If you want to display AD and BC add the following to User:You/monobook.css page */
/*
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: none; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display:inline; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE { display:none; }
*/

/*If you want to display CE and BCE add the following to User:You/monobook.css page */
/*
.Use_Default_Date_Convention { display: none; }
.Use_AD_and_BC { display:none; }
.Use_BCE_and_CE {display:inline; }
*/

/* Class for links with loudspeaker icon next to them */

.audiolink a{
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png") center left no-repeat !important;
    padding-left: 16px !important;
    padding-right: 0 !important;
}

/* Icons for medialist templates [[Template:Listen]], [[Template:Multi-listen_start]], [[Template:Video]], [[Template:Multi-video_start]] */

div.listenlist {
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Gnome-speakernotes.png/30px-Gnome-speakernotes.png");
    padding-left: 40px;
}

div.videolist, div.multivideolist {
    background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/20/Tango-video-x-generic.png/40px-Tango-video-x-generic.png");
    padding-left: 50px;
}

/* Style rules for media list templates */

div.medialist {
    min-height: 50px;
    margin: 1em;
    background-position: top left;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

div.medialist ul {
    list-style-type: none; 
    list-style-image: none;
    margin: 0;
}

div.medialist ul li {
    padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}

div.medialist ul li li {
    font-size: 91%;
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

/* Change the external link icon to an Adobe icon for all PDF files */
/* (in browsers that support these CSS selectors, like Mozilla and Opera) */
#bodyContent a[href$=".pdf"].external, 
#bodyContent a[href*=".pdf?"].external, 
#bodyContent a[href*=".pdf#"].external,
#bodyContent a[href$=".PDF"].external, 
#bodyContent a[href*=".PDF?"].external, 
#bodyContent a[href*=".PDF#"].external {
    background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif/15px-Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif) center right no-repeat;
    padding-right: 16px;
}

/* Change the external link icon to an Adobe icon anywhere the PDFlink class */
/* is used (notably Template:PDFlink). This works in IE, unlike the above. */
span.PDFlink a {
    background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif/15px-Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif) center right no-repeat !important;
    padding-right: 17px !important;
}

span.geolink a {
    background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Monobook-globe.png) center right no-repeat !important;
    padding-right: 11px !important;
}

/* Content in columns with CSS instead of tables [[Template:Columns]] */
div.columns-2 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 50%;
    min-width: 300px;
}

div.columns-3 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 33.3%;
    min-width: 200px;
}

div.columns-4 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 25%;
    min-width: 150px;
}

div.columns-5 div.column {
    float: left;
    width: 20%;
    min-width: 120px;
}

/*Add formatting to make sure that "external references" from [[Template:Ref]] do
  not get URL expansion, not even when printed. The mechanism up to MediaWiki 1.4 was
  that the HTML code contained a SPAN following the anchor A; this SPAN had the class
  "urlexpansion", which was not displayed on screen, but was shown when the medium was
  "print". The rules below ensure (a) that there is no extra padding to the right of
  the anchor (displayed as "[<number>]"), (b) that there is no "external link arrow" for
  the link, and (c) that this SPAN of class "urlexpansion" is never shown.
  ~~~~
*/

.plainlinksneverexpand {
  background: none ! important;
  padding: 0 ! important;
}

.plainlinksneverexpand .urlexpansion {
  display: none ! important;
}

/* Make sure that ext links displayed within "plainlinksneverexpand" don't get
   the arrow...
*/
.plainlinksneverexpand a {
   background: none !important;
   padding: 0 !important;
}

/* With MediaWiki 1.5, the mechanism has changed: instead of a SPAN of class "urlexpansion"
   following the anchor A, the anchor itself now has class "external autonumber" and the
   expansion is inserted when printing (see the common printing style sheet at
   http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/commonPrint.css) using the ":after" pseudo-
   element of CSS. We have to switch this off for links due to Template:Ref!
   ~~~~
*/
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.text:after {
  display: none !important;
}
.plainlinksneverexpand a.external.autonumber:after {
  display: none !important;
}

/* Messagebox templates */

.messagebox {
   border: 1px solid #aaa;
   background-color: #f9f9f9;
   width: 80%;
   margin: 0 auto 1em auto;
   padding: .2em;
}
.messagebox.merge {
   border: 1px solid #c0b8cc;
   background-color: #f0e5ff;
   text-align: center;
}
.messagebox.cleanup {
   border: 1px solid #9f9fff;
   background-color: #efefff;
   text-align: center;
}
.messagebox.standard-talk {
   border: 1px solid #c0c090;
   background-color: #f8eaba;
}
.messagebox.nested-talk {
   border: 1px solid #c0c090;
   background-color: #f8eaba;
   width: 100%;
   margin: 2px 4px 2px 4px;
}

/* Put a checker background at the image description page only visible if the image has transparent background */

#file img {background: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Checker-16x16.png") repeat;}

/* Support for Template:IPA, Template:Unicode and Template:Polytonic. The inherit declaration resets the font for all browsers except MSIE6.  The empty comment must remain. Please copy any changes to [[Template:IPA fonts]] and [[Template:Unicode fonts]]. */
.IPA {
        font-family: "Chrysanthi Unicode", "Doulos SIL", Gentium, GentiumAlt, Code2000, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", "DejaVu Sans", "Bitstream Cyberbit", "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", "Matrix Unicode";
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.Unicode {
        font-family: Code2000, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", "Doulos SIL", "Chrysanthi Unicode", "Bitstream Cyberbit", "Bitstream CyberBase", Thryomanes, Gentium, GentiumAlt, "Lucida Grande", "Arial Unicode MS", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Lucida Sans Unicode";
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.latinx {
        font-family: Code2000, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", "Microsoft Sans Serif";
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.polytonic {
        font-family: Athena, Gentium, "Palatino Linotype", "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Code2000; 
        font-family /**/:inherit;
}
.mufi {
        font-family: Alphabetum, Cardo, LeedsUni, Junicode, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", ALPHA-Demo;
}

#wpSave {
  font-weight: bold;
}

/* class hiddenStructure is defunct. See [[Wikipedia:hiddenStructure]] */
.hiddenStructure {
   display: inline ! important;
   color: #f00; 
   background-color: #0f0;
}

/* Removes underlines from links */
.nounderlines a { 
  text-decoration: none;
}

/* Remove underline from IPA links */
.IPA a:link, .IPA a:visited {
  text-decoration: none;
}

/* Removes useless links from printout */
@media print {
    #privacy, #about, #disclaimer {display:none;}
}

#EnWpMpBook { background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/MP-open-book.png); }
#EnWpMpSearch { background: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/MP-magnifying-glass.png) no-repeat top right; }
#EnWpMpSearchInner { float: right; width: 20em; text-align: center; }
#EnWpMpBook2 { background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/MP-open-book2.png); }

.messagebox.small-talk {
  width: 238px;
  font-size: 85%;
  float: right;
  clear: both;
  margin: 0 0 1em 1em;
  line-height: 1.25em; 
  background: #F8EABA;
}

/* Standard Navigationsleisten, aka box hiding thingy from .de.  Documentation at [[Wikipedia:NavFrame]]. */

div.Boxmerge,
div.NavFrame {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 4px;
        border: 1px solid #aaa;
        text-align: center;
        border-collapse: collapse;
        font-size: 95%;
}
div.Boxmerge div.NavFrame {
        border-style: none;
        border-style: hidden;
}
div.NavFrame + div.NavFrame {
        border-top-style: none;
        border-top-style: hidden;
}
div.NavPic {
        background-color: #fff;
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 2px;
        float: left;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavHead {
        height: 1.6em;
        font-weight: bold;
        background-color: #ccccff;
        position:relative;
}
div.NavFrame p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavFrame div.NavContent p {
        font-size: 100%;
}
div.NavEnd {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
        line-height: 1px;
        clear: both;
}
a.NavToggle {
        position:absolute;
        top:0px;
        right:3px;
        font-weight:normal;
        font-size:smaller;
}

/* Coloured watchlist numbers */
.mw-plusminus-pos {
  color:darkgreen;
}

/* .mw-plusminus-null currently at developer default */

.mw-plusminus-neg {
  color:darkred;
}

.dablink {
  font-style:italic;
  padding-left:2em;
}

/* Style for horizontal UL lists */
.horizontal ul {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

.horizontal li { 
  padding: 0 0.6em 0 0.4em;
  display: inline;
  border-right: 1px solid;
}

.horizontal li:last-child {
  border-right: none;
  padding-right: 0;
}

/*

*/

This is applied in m:Template:m to ft css (talk, backlinks, edit).

Variable HTML attribute name

A HTML attribute name can be made variable. HTML Tidy removes attributes with invalid names at the server side, so the result does not depend on a browser capability to ignore invalid attribute names, and the amount of data sent is reduced. For a variable with possible value "class", see w:en:Wikipedia:HiddenStructure and en:Template:Infobox (talk, backlinks, edit).

Variable style parameter value

Wikitext like

<span style="display:{{{3|none}}}">Wed</span>

displays "Wed" if parameter 3 is defined, but not "none", and displays nothing if parameter 3 is undefined or "none". If the value of parameter 3 is a display style other than "none", that style is applied.

Samples

/* make the background behind the content area and the tabs a light grey */
#content, #content table
#p-cactions ul li a { background: #f5f5f5; }

/* stop background image from scrolling with content area */
body { background-attachment: fixed; }

/* replace the book in the background with something else */
body { background: Purple; }

/* changes the background of pre areas  */
pre { background: White }

/* change the logo */
#p-logo a { background: url(http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/wiki.png) 35% 50% no-repeat !important; }

/* don't use any logo, move the boxes onto that area instead */
#p-logo { display: none }
#column-one { padding-top: 0; }

/* suppress the person icon by your username */
li#pt-userpage { background: none }

/* use browser prefs for text size and font */
body, #globalWrapper { font: inherit !important; }

/* always underline links */
:link { text-decoration: underline; }

/*Display body content in a narrower column for easier reading*/
/*adjust percentages as desired*/
div#bodyContent {
  width: 50%;
  line-height: 105%;
}

/* change background of unselected tabs */
#p-cactions ul li a { background: #C7FDC7; }

/* change background of selected tabs */
#p-cactions ul li.selected a { background: white; }

/* change border background of selected tabs */
#p-cactions li.selected { border-color: #aaaaaa; }

/* tab bottom not removed on hover */
#p-cactions li a:hover { z-index: 0; text-decoration: none; }
#p-cactions li.selected a:hover { z-index: 3; }

/* style the search box and the buttons below it */
input.searchButton {
    background-color: #efefef !important;
    border: 1px outset !important;  
}
#searchInput { border: 1px inset !important; }

/* standard link colors */
:link { color: #0000FF; }
:link:visited { color: #7F007F; }
:link:active, :link.new { color: #FF0000; }
:link.interwiki, :link.external { color: #3366BB; }
:link.stub { color: #772233; }

/* put scrollbar on pre sections instead of ugly cutoff/overlap in firefox */
pre { overflow: auto; }

/* strikeout Upload File link as a reminder to upload to Commons instead */
li#t-upload { text-decoration: line-through; }

Rounded corners in Mozilla

/* make a few corners round, only supported by moz/firefox/other gecko browsers for now */
#p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a {  
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em;
}
#content { 
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; 
  -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em;
}
div.pBody {
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 1em;
}

/* same following the css3 draft specs, any browsers supporting this? */
#p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a {  
  border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  border-radius-topright: 1em;
}
#content { 
  border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  border-radius-bottomleft: 1em;
}
div.pBody {
  border-radius-topright: 1em;
  border-radius-bottomright: 1em;
}
Image:Rounded corners.png
Rounded corner rules in firefox

Rounded corners/tabs links

Print view tweaks

/*
** Place all print-specific rules in an @media print block.
*/

/* save ink and paper with very small fonts */
@media print {
    #footer,
    #content,
    body { font-size: 8pt !important; }
    h1 { font-size: 17pt }
    h2 { font-size: 14pt }
    h3 { font-size: 11pt }
    h4 { font-size: 9pt }
    h5 { font-size: 8pt }
    h6 { 
        font-size: 8pt;
        font-weight: normal;
    }
}

/* Advanced things: using :before and :after it's possible to add formatting 
this here adds the full href of a link after it (not needed in the current version): */
@media print {
  #content a:link:after, 
  #content a:visited:after {
     content: " ( " attr(href) " ) ";
  }
}

Make the user toolbar a sidebox

Tested to work in Camino, Safari and Internet Explorer 7.

/* Transform the user toolbar into a sidebox */
#p-personal {
    position:relative;
    z-index:3;
    width: 11.6em;
}

#p-personal .pBody {
    width: 10.7em;
    border: none;
    margin: 0 0 0.1em 0em;
    float: none;
    overflow: hidden;
    font-size: 95%;
    background: White;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
    padding: 0 0.8em 0.3em .5em;
}

#p-personal ul {
    line-height: 1.5em;
    list-style-type: square;
    list-style-image: url("/style/monobook/bullet.gif");

    font-size:95%;
    margin: 0 0 0 1.5em;
    padding:0;
    text-align:left;
    text-transform: none;
}

#p-personal li {
    display: list-item;
    padding:0;
    margin: 0 0 0 0;
    margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}

/* suppress the person icon by your username */
/* needed if not already in place */
li#pt-userpage { background: none }

See the monobook main.css for the full styles in use by default.

Fix the sidebar's position while you scroll

This script and CSS makes the sidebar stay in the same position on the screen as you scroll
This script and CSS makes the sidebar stay in the same position on the screen as you scroll

The Cologne Blue skin has an option for a "floating left" quickbar, which causes the navigation links and toolboxes and such to stay in the same position on the screen while you scroll. This provides the same functionality for the Monobook skin (in Mozilla). See Help:User style/floating quickbar

Monobook menus with serif fonts in the content area

I've hacked together a q&d combinaton of monobook menus with serif fonts in the text area; there are some quirks and bugs (some because the css scheme of wikipedia doesn't seem to be soo thoughtful), but if you want to give it a try or have a look, go to [3] and copy the first part. No warranty; works on Netscape7/Win98 for me ... -- Tillwe 14:05, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Update (01.06.04): Now also displays table formatted things more or less correctly. -- Tillwe 17:45, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Moving category links

Moves category links in the upper right corner of content area, and paints them gray -- Tillwe 21:22, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Small fix --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 22:05, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

/******************************************************************/
/* moving catlinks to the right                                   */
/******************************************************************/

/* move the catlinks box */
#catlinks {  
  position:absolute;
  z-index:1;
/*  border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; 
  background: #fafaff; */
  right:1em; 
  top:-0.25em;
  width:10.5em;
  float:right;
  margin: 0.2em;
  padding:0.2em;
}

/* format the catlinks itself */
p.catlinks {
  color: #aaaaaa;
  font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;
  font-size:67%;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  text-align:left;
  text-indent:0;
  text-transform: none;
  white-space:normal;
  margin: 0.2em;
}

#p-personal h5 {
    display: inline;
}

/* format links in the catlinks (as distinguished from ":" and "|") */
p.catlinks a {
  color:#888888;
}

Diff view styling

/* don't use a smaller font */
td.diff-addedline, td.diff-deletedline, td.diff-context { font-size: 100% };

/* underline just the text that's different */
span.diffchange { text-decoration:underline; }

External links on css

JavaScript

JavaScript has many possibilities, for example adding text, including links, at the desired positions. This added content may depend on content on the HTML source page produced by the server; for example it may depend on HTML elements with an ID, by applying getElementById. The position of insertion may be specified by insertBefore.

System requirements

User JavaScript customization requires that your wiki administrator sets a configuration variable in LocalSettings.php:

$wgAllowUserJs = true;

As of MediaWiki 1.6.3 if you customize a user JavaScript page such as monobook.js there is no warning message displayed in the case where the Wikipedia is configured to disable user JavaScript. Apparently the best method to determine this is to check your MediaWiki server's LocalSettings.php if you have the access rights to do this, or experiment with adding some custom JavaScript to see if it works. The Firefox Web Developer's extension contains an "information | view JavaScript" function which makes it convenient to check what JavaScript Firefox has loaded or not loaded. The main English Wikipedia site is configured with user JavaScript enabled.

Duplicate edit links at the bottom of the content area

See Help:User style/bottom tabs

Image:Bottom tabs position corrected.png
Bottom tabs in Firefox
Image:Bottomlinks.png
Simple version of bottom links in action

Changing access keys

These are now defined/set from js, you can easily customize them by changing some elements in the 'ta' array (see [4]). Example line:

ta['ca-nstab-main'] = new Array('c','View the content page');

The access key is the first value in the array. An example which changes this accesskey to '0':

ta['ca-nstab-main'] = new Array('0','View the content page');

Since alt-d is also a shortcut to the address bar in most browsers, you might want to disable the alt-d shortcut for Delete, by entering an empty string as access key this way:

ta['ca-delete'] = new Array('','Delete this page');

Finally, to disable all access and tooltips drop

ta = false;

in your monobook.js.

The site's global access keys are in corresponding JavaScript for the skins. For example, the keys for Monobook are in the (protected) page MediaWiki:Monobook.js.

To disable or change the global access keys for the 'power user editing shortcuts', you must edit the six (protected) pages starting with the Accesskey prefix in the MediaWiki namespace.

Moving categories to top

The following code moves the category box to the top of the article. Of course, you might want to apply some CSS to make it look prettier:

function catsattop() {
  var cats = document.getElementById('catlinks');
  var bc = document.getElementById('bodyContent');
  bc.insertBefore(cats, bc.childNodes[0]);
}

An alternative that, when coupled with an appropriate stylesheet, will put the text up at about the same line as the title:

function categoryToTop() {
  var thebody = document.getElementById('contentTop');
  var categories = document.getElementById('catlinks');

  if (categories != null) {
    categories.parentNode.removeChild (categories);
    thebody.parentNode.insertBefore(categories, thebody);
  }
}

Some CSS to go with that...

/* move the catlinks box */
#catlinks {  
  right:1em; 
  top:-0.25em;
  max-width: 50%; /* this limits the box size, but doesn't set strictly */
  float: right;
  margin: 0.5em;
  padding: 0.2em;
}

/* format the catlinks itself */
p.catlinks {
  font-size:67%;
  text-align:left;
  text-indent:0;
  text-transform: none;
  white-space:normal;
  margin: 0.2em;
}

Unfortunately, if the category box is large (such as on entries on U.S. presidents and other major figures), it can push an infobox off to the side. To correct this, the "clear: right" attribute can be added to an infobox.

Wikitext-controlled CSS

CSS can be controlled through JS by wikitext. For example, a HTML element "span" without content can, through its class and id, provide parameters for JS specifying CSS for any parts of the page. For example, if a page contains a "span" element with class FA and id lc, w:en:MediaWiki:Monobook.js specifies the style and title of elements "li" of class interwiki-lc, thus controlling the style and title of the interlanguage link of language code lc in the margin, provided that the skin specifies this class interwiki-lc (E.g., Cologne Blue specifies class='external' for each language, so it does not work for that skin.) See also en:Template:Link FA (talk, backlinks, edit).

External links on JS

See also

edit

Wikipedia-specific help

Template:Ph:User style

This page is a copy of the master help page at Meta (for general help information all Wikimedia projects can use), with two Wikipedia-specific templates inserted. To update the main text, edit the master help page for all projects at m:Help:User style. For Wikipedia-specific issues, use Template:Ph:User style (the extra text at the bottom of this page) or Template:Phh:User style for a Wikipedia-specific lead (text appears at the top of this page). You are welcome to copy the exact wikitext from the master page at Meta and paste it into this page at any time. To view this page in other languages see the master page at Meta.

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