[Mediawiki-l] need help with skin edit

[Michael Daly]

revansx at cox.net wrote:
> I am a new to CSS 

That could slow you down :)

> what I wish to do is make the background of this DIV section 
 > a color which is determined by the heading depth...i.e. <h1>
 > is darkest and <h2> is lighter than <h1> and so forth.


Look in main.css.  You'll find all the CSS for the various Hn tags. 
You'll also find some are identified by the tag that they apply to.  You 
can (should be able to) set the colours for the background and 
foreground with those.  You may have to create a new set of Hn 
definitions with a specific tag reference to limit your changes to body 
content.

My advice if you have a wiki that is in use and no stand-alone test wiki 
- create a dummy skin to experiment with.  Log on and set your 
preferences to that skin.  That will allow you to experiment at will 
without affecting the other users.  When you're happy with the results, 
you can move (with appropriate renaming) the files to the real skin.

Mike