On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
From: Tim Ware
<tim(a)hyperarts.com>
How can I style the top tabs on the wiki, the ones with the boxes
around them (eg page, discussion)?
I need to set the widths and margins and can't find the style that
controls them in main.css.
RUN, don't walk, down to
http://www.westciv.com/xray/xray_more.html
and download XRAY (free).
It's a javascript tool that has changed my life. You stick it on a
bookmark, and when you run it, a window pops up, prompting you to
click on any element on the web page. It then displays all its
attributes, including all the information you need to find it in your
CSS file
Thanks Jan. I use the Firebug plugin with Firefox which does the same
thing. I believe the styling of those tabs is very limited due to
their display being set to "inline" so that they align horizontally. I
tried changing the individual <li> tags to *float* left, but there's
just too much nested CSS to try to make any significant changes.
Tim
In less than an hour with this tool (and a nice CSS editor: "CSSEdit,"
Mac-only, but there are great ones for Linux and Windoze, I'm sure) I
managed to make a MediaWiki site look like a plain-Jane website.
Sorry I don't have THE answer, but this tool will answer your
question, and many more into the future.
:::: The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered
by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which
blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. -- Dresden James ::::
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::
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