I don't see any obvious reason why the logo is set
as a
background image inline in monobook.php rather than in
common.css. I suspect that if there is a reason it would also
explain why what I'm trying to do is not working.
I do not speak for the MW maintainers, but I believe this is to
explicitly prevent the logo from being changable via
[[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] and [[MediaWiki:Common.css]]. That is,
that changing the logo requires actual back-end access, not simply a
sysop account on the wiki.
What follows is one solution to what you are trying to do - I cannot
help you any more than giving you the exact solution:
1) In an un-altered Monobook.php, locate and remove the style
attribute on the <a> tag under the p-logo div.
2) Add this to the article [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]]:
#p-logo a {
background-image: url(http://server/path/to/regular-logo.gif);
}
#p-logo a:hover {
background-image: url(http://server/path/to/hover-logo.gif);
}
That's all it takes. I have tested this in a vanilla MW 1.9.3
install. Good luck!
-- Jim
On 11/13/07, James Sweet <james(a)educationarchitects.com> wrote:
Yes, as I said earlier I added the img link to
monobook.php, and I also
modified the a and a:hover properties in main.css. The reason I did so is
because I want to have a different image on hover. Here is an example (not
the images I'm actually using for a logo):
http://www.clickthink.net/HoverLogo/
The only way I'm aware to do this is to link to a transparent image and set
the background-image for a and a:hover to the appropriate logos, which is
what I did. That did not work, however, and my question was does anyone know
what the problem might be?
As long as we're on the subject of separating style and content, I don't see
any obvious reason why the logo is set as a background image inline in
monobook.php rather than in common.css. I suspect that if there is a reason
it would also explain why what I'm trying to do is not working.
Best,
Jim
-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change logo on hover
How do you propose to create a link without an
img tag, ...
Again, as Platonides said, the img tag didn't exist prior to you
putting it there, and the link worked just fine.
state-dependent styles cannot be handled inline?
You're correct that you can't represent state-dependent styles via an
inline style declaration - which is why I said you should remove the
inline background declaration and put it all in
[[MediaWiki:Common.css]] or [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]].
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On Nov 11, 2007 9:10 PM, James Sweet <james(a)educationarchitects.com> wrote:
> How do you propose to create a link without an img tag, given that
state-dependent styles cannot be handled inline?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Platonides
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:43 PM
> To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Change logo on hover
>
>
> James Sweet wrote:
> > If you remove the style attribute and don't add an image source, then
> there
> > is no image at all in the anchor and therefore nothing to click on.
That's
> why the transparent image is needed.
It's actually what provides the
link,
but only
the two background images can actually be seen.
The monobook didn't have an <img tag before you added it. It's not
really needed.
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