There should already be something in the stylesheet. It's a class called "white-plus-sign". Not the best name, but I think it'll work.
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Jon B. - Oct 25, 2004 5:01:49 pm PDT #8484 of 10000
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Gus - Oct 25, 2004 5:05:57 pm PDT #8485 of 10000
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"white-plus-sign" is committed to white. The "transparent" color val works fine with backgrounds that are not white.
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2004 5:07:51 pm PDT #8486 of 10000
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Sorry -- I meant that we could change the white-plus-sign to transparent and it would do what it's currently doing as well as the spoiler font stuff.
t edit In fact, if we're talking about letting people change the background color, then we have to change the white-plus-sign class to work with that.
Gus - Oct 25, 2004 5:13:00 pm PDT #8487 of 10000
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I meant that we could change the white-plus-sign to transparent and it would do what it's currently doing as well as the spoiler font stuff.
Yup. Change white-plus-sign to transparent, substitute the font replacement in quickedit to an enclosing white-plus-sign div. Easy peasy.
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2004 5:24:54 pm PDT #8488 of 10000
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Actually, IIRC, you'd want to use a SPAN tag, not a DIV. A DIV puts its contents in its own paragraph, at least in some browsers (I'm too lazy to check the spec). SPAN does not.
tommyrot - Oct 25, 2004 6:35:17 pm PDT #8489 of 10000
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eta: I typed:
<font size="-2">I can't "do" this</font>
and I end up with:
I cant do this
the HTML changes to:
<font size='-2' >I cant do this</font >
Gus - Oct 25, 2004 6:41:43 pm PDT #8490 of 10000
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Dang, tommyrot discovered the scare quotes gobbler I snuck into the code.
Nah, That's a bug.
OK, span is more better than div, for this purpose. Unfortunately, transparent is giving me a hard time for text color attribute. She don't want to work in some browsers. Grr. I'll try to craft an expression() to grab the bgColor, after work.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2004 8:18:28 pm PDT #8491 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Crafting expressions makes us browser dependent, doesn't it? If we can control changing the background colour in a style sheet, we can control changing the definition of the spoiler class/style/whatever.
I'd just go that way.
aurelia - Oct 25, 2004 9:11:47 pm PDT #8492 of 10000
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October 25, 2004, 11:02 pm aurelia[795]: ERROR [2] Unknown modifier '2' line 597 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/post.php
October 25, 2004, 11:02 pm aurelia[795]: ERROR [2] Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/giles.php:64) line 45 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/processPost.php
I was trying to post a link to a google results page. Does this mean I was doing something wrong, or that the server choked on something?
Gus - Oct 25, 2004 11:18:27 pm PDT #8493 of 10000
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The server choked on something weird in the link. If you still have that link around, you could maybe send it to my profile addy, so I can see how to protect us from it happening again.
eta: Got your link. Thanks aurelia.
It looks fine, to me: [link]
... doesn't choke now, so I'm going with the malevolent gamma rays theory.
further edit: ita, that makes sense. I just added the span to the replacement regex, then. There was already a "spoiler" class in the css, so I used it.