She didn't even touch her pumpkin. It's a freak with no face.

Willow ,'Help'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Jon B. - May 11, 2008 9:12:33 am PDT #1878 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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?


Pix - May 11, 2008 9:16:51 am PDT #1879 of 4673
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

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


Polter-Cow - May 11, 2008 9:37:38 am PDT #1880 of 4673
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

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.


Lee - May 11, 2008 9:47:26 am PDT #1881 of 4673
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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.


Jon B. - May 11, 2008 9:48:23 am PDT #1882 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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!


Jon B. - May 11, 2008 10:00:45 am PDT #1883 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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.


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 10:02:17 am PDT #1884 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay--is there css stuff from css.net that needs to come over?


Jon B. - May 11, 2008 10:05:07 am PDT #1885 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Looks like threadsuck is already fixed, yes? Then just showthread.php


Polter-Cow - May 11, 2008 10:07:13 am PDT #1886 of 4673
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I believe it was Verdana, 14px.

I've taken a look at the CSS, and I don't know what to change! Everything is in percentages, and the only mention of font is an entire family.

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

So I should leave the CSS alone for the padding issue?


§ ita § - May 11, 2008 10:11:35 am PDT #1887 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jon, can you also have a look at validate and register.php?