Are the line breaks essential to the formatting?

Or do you mean in the CSS? If so--no.

The good news is that if you really don't like something, you can change it! Before the switch, you couldn't do that.

That's way cool, but I don't really know how! I don't know what all the parameters for the old version were. I'm not sure what all I need to tinker with (and how) to make it look like it did before.

Seriously, this is all crazy amazing. Thanks again.

It's loads better than the TWoP redesign! But so many things are.

Ooooh! Yeah, what ita said.

.formpost, .editpost {width: 505px;height: 175px;}

is the same as

.formpost, .editpost {
   width: 505px;
   height: 175px;
}

I was using the formatting for clarity.

OK, this CSS stuff is seriously fun. I'm going to end up with a totally unreadable board if I don't stop myself.

I'm not sure what all I need to tinker with (and how) to make it look like it did before.

We can help with the "how" part. The question is, does it look bad in some way, or are you just not used to the slight differences? I've been using the css version for months now, and it took a little getting used to, but it looks perfectly "normal" to me now. Maybe you just need a little time?

After refreshing and modifying my font, I am a happy girl! Thanks so much for all this work, stompies!

The question is, does it look bad in some way, or are you just not used to the slight differences? I've been using the css version for months now, and it took a little getting used to, but it looks perfectly "normal" to me now. Maybe you just need a little time?

It's possible. I don't deal well with change. Nothing looks bad, per se. Except for the extra padding in every other post. In alternating posts, there are a couple extra blank lines between the end of the post and the separating line. I think that's what Perkins was talking about?

What was the font/font size on the old board? Maybe if I changed that back, things would look more normal to me.

P-C, I think we are talking about the same thing, as was DX.

I put this in my personal CSS

post {
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-top: 0;
border-bottom: solid 1px;
}

And it helped somewhat. Some posts still have extra padding on the bottom, but I think that may be because sometimes people put in an hard return or two.

Thanks again, stompies! Playing with the CSS was kind of fun.

What was the font/font size on the old board?

I believe it was Verdana, 14px.

In alternating posts, there are a couple extra blank lines between the end of the post and the separating line. I think that's what Perkins was talking about?

I know what the problem is here, but the fix may be tricky.

If a post is more than one paragraph, then each is surrounded by a p tag. But if a post is only one paragraph, no p tag is used. Since the p tag (correctly) has a top and bottom margin, this means that posts of more than one paragraph have more space at the bottom than posts of just one paragraph.

The best fix, I think, is to also put a p tag around all post paragraphs, even if there's just one. Then the space at the bottom will always be the same and we can futz with the css to remove the extra space.

t edit note that this is a fix that ita needs to do. It's not a css change!

ita -- digging deeper into the code, I think the fix is easy. Right now, the _quickedit() function is replacing line breaks with a closing and opening p tag. But no post has an opening p tag at the start or closing p tag at the end! Just add them to the start and end of every post, and we'll be good.