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Steve VanSlyck

30 Dec 2007 30 Dec '07

5:28 p.m.

I need to increase the space between paragarphs in my wiki. Is there a way to do that? Changing fonts doesn't seem to make a difference. Also, how to set the colors for unvisited, visited, and broken links. Thanks.

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David A. Desrosiers

30 Dec 30 Dec

5:31 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:28 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

I need to increase the space between paragarphs in my wiki. Is there a way to do that? Changing fonts doesn't seem to make a difference.

Also, how to set the colors for unvisited, visited, and broken links.

Start here: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/ -- David A. Desrosiers desrod(a)gnu-designs.com Skype...: 860-967-3820

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Steve VanSlyck

5:35 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

Didn't find anything there that applied to the paragraph level. David A. Desrosiers wrote:

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:28 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

I need to increase the space between paragarphs in my wiki. Is there a way to do that? Changing fonts doesn't seem to make a difference.

Start here: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/

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David A. Desrosiers

5:38 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:35 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Didn't find anything there that applied to the paragraph level.

Sure you did, you just chose to ignore it: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/margins/ Here's one approach, depending on your template and layout: p { margin-bottom: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 1.0em; } -- David A. Desrosiers desrod(a)gnu-designs.com Skype...: 860-967-3820

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Steve VanSlyck

5:39 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

That is the first thing I read. Perhaps I don't know what an "element" is. David A. Desrosiers wrote:

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:35 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Didn't find anything there that applied to the paragraph level.

Sure you did, you just chose to ignore it: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/margins/ Here's one approach, depending on your template and layout: p { margin-bottom: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 1.0em; }

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Steve VanSlyck

5:41 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

Follow up - I am talking about the formatting of straight text. Not text within a table. Thanks. David A. Desrosiers wrote:

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:35 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Didn't find anything there that applied to the paragraph level.

Sure you did, you just chose to ignore it: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/margins/ Here's one approach, depending on your template and layout: p { margin-bottom: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 1.0em; }

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Steve VanSlyck

5:49 p.m.

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For link colors, place the following code (assuming you like my particular color choices) in Common.css: /* link appearance - note: "underline" means underscore */ /* and "active" means selected (mouse down) */ /* unvisited and initial defaults */ a:link {color: blue !important } a:link { text-decoration: underline !important } a:link:hover { background-color: yellow !important } /* active links */ a:link:active { color: red !important } /* visited links */ a:visited { text-decoration: underline !important } a:visited { color: red !important } a:visited:hover { background-color: yellow !important }

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David A. Desrosiers

5:54 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:41 -0500, Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Follow up - I am talking about the formatting of straight text. Not text within a table. Thanks.

That is correct, and so was I. Unless you're representing tabular data (i.e. the kind that would go into a spreadsheet), then you should not be using tables. I haven't used tables in any HTML I've written in several years, because frankly (unless it's tabular data), there is no point. (cue the religious war over tables vs. layout vs. css vs. divitis) But my answer is still correct. You should try it and see what it does, then play with the values until you get the effect you're after, before you shoot it down as incorrect. -- David A. Desrosiers desrod(a)gnu-designs.com Skype...: 860-967-3820

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Steve VanSlyck

5:58 p.m.

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Perfect, thank you. My problem is that sites about the basics are not basic enough. For example, I could not find in this site any doc on the "p" tag. Thanks again. David A. Desrosiers wrote:

http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/margins/ Here's one approach, depending on your template and layout: p { margin-bottom: 0.7em; padding-bottom: 1.0em; }

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Minute Electron

6:59 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

On Dec 30, 2007 5:58 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote:

Perfect, thank you. My problem is that sites about the basics are not basic enough. For example, I could not find in this site any doc on the "p" tag. Thanks again.

That would be because the '"p" tag' is (X)HTML, not CSS. CSS generally requires basic knowledge of (X)HTML. -- MinuteElectron. http://my.brlcad.org/~MinuteElectron/

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Steve VanSlyck

7:17 p.m.

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Well I guess that might partially explain it. ;) OK, well. Um. p { padding-bottom: 1.0em; } seems to be doing the trick nicely, except after the last item in a list when followed by a section header. I think it would be better to space-after the last list item instead of spaceing-before the header. Any thoughts on that, of suggestions of a better way? Minute Electron wrote:

On Dec 30, 2007 5:58 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck(a)spamcop.net> wrote:

Perfect, thank you. My problem is that sites about the basics are not basic enough. For example, I could not find in this site any doc on the "p" tag. Thanks again.

That would be because the '"p" tag' is (X)HTML, not CSS. CSS generally requires basic knowledge of (X)HTML.

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Platonides

5 Jan 5 Jan

4:46 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Paragraph Spacing

Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Well I guess that might partially explain it. ;) OK, well. Um. p { padding-bottom: 1.0em; } seems to be doing the trick nicely, except after the last item in a list when followed by a section header. I think it would be better to space-after the last list item instead of spaceing-before the header. Any thoughts on that, of suggestions of a better way?

p, ul, ol { padding-bottom: 1.0em; } ?

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Steve VanSlyck

4:49 p.m.

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Oooh - I like that - I'm gonna try that! Platonides wrote:

Steve VanSlyck wrote:

Well I guess that might partially explain it. ;) OK, well. Um. p { padding-bottom: 1.0em; } seems to be doing the trick nicely, except after the last item in a list when followed by a section header. I think it would be better to space-after the last list item instead of spaceing-before the header. Any thoughts on that, of suggestions of a better way?

p, ul, ol { padding-bottom: 1.0em; } ?

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