On 22/09/05, Roth Philippe philippe.roth@epfl.ch wrote:

Hello,

Thank you for your message, but I do not understand exactly... I know where the CSS is but:

• Where could I find those namespaces?
• Where should I insert or modify those 'ns-x'?

The ns-x are already there, as are the namespaces - Talk:, User:, Wikipedia: etc. Each has a number used inside the software (0 for the "main"/"article" namespace, 1 for "talk", etc), and these appear in the source of pages as CSS selectors. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Namespace for more.

Perhaps the best explanation is by example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.css contains code to make everything except articles have a blue background; it starts by making everything blue, and then changes "ns-0" (articles) back to white:

#content { background: #F8FCFF; /* a light blue */ }

.ns-0 * #content { background: white; }

[it goes on to do this for things like the background of the tabs at the top, so they fit better]

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Monobook.css takes a more long-winded approach, and defines a default "sky blue" background but then overrides it for each namespace one by one:

/* Couleur par défaut */ #content { background : #F8FCFF; } /* bleu ciel */ #p-cactions li { background : #F8FCFF; } #p-cactions li a { background : #F8FCFF; }

/* Couleur de fond des articles */ .ns-0 * #content { background : white; } .ns-0 * #p-cactions li { background : white; } .ns-0 * #p-cactions li a { background : white; }

[and so on for ns-1, ns-2, ns-3, etc]

HTH -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]