Idea regarding CSS, taxoboxes, etc. - Wikitech-l

31 May 2004


      Hi.
I've played around with the /User:xyz/monobook.css feature today. It's 
incredibly cool. Not just because I can customise the look of the site 
for myself, but also because it's pretty damn flexible.
However, almost all formatting for infoboxes like the taxoboxes and 
article series boxes (ignoring for a second the question whether we 
still want them, with the categorisation system in place now) is in the 
markup for those tables themselves.
It should instead be in a Wikipedia-global CSS file.
So my idea would be to have a [[Wikipedia:monobook-global.css]] or 
something like that, which contains the CSS for these boxes, and which 
is also wiki-editable, so as to allow users (or at least sysops) to 
define new classes for new kinds of elements as they are invented.
Then
(a) we can keep the styling out of the table mark-up
(b) users can customise these things with the same flexibility as
     everything else!
Thoughts?
While we're at it, please could someone casually add a class="..." 
attribute to the table row in the TOC that contains the words "Table of 
Contents"? Thanks ;-)
Timwi