After refreshing and modifying my font, I am a happy girl! Thanks so much for all this work, stompies!
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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.
Okay--is there css stuff from css.net that needs to come over?
Looks like threadsuck is already fixed, yes? Then just showthread.php
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?
Jon, can you also have a look at validate and register.php?
I've taken a look at the CSS, and I don't know what to change!
The font family hasn't changed. All you should need to add is:
body {font-size: 14px;}
and see what happens.
So I should leave the CSS alone for the padding issue?
I would say hold off until ita fixes the paragraph tag issue. Then see how things look.