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Too bad there's no way to set a variable in a user's profile whether to see whitefont as white or non-white.
Thread specific, doubly so.
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Hey, my inquiry as to the rolling of post overflow into a new post turned out to be feasable, I thought I would muse anew...
Too bad there's no way to set a variable in a user's profile whether to see whitefont as white or non-white.
It's definitely possible. We talked at one time of having user-specific stylesheets and the whitefont is, or could easily be made, a style.
Is it a style? I can't remember. Let's check:
Am I a style?
t edit Nope. It's just a font color="ffffff" substitution, but that's not a barrier.
Yeah, Jon, that's a good play. I have that part of the code open now. I could replace the font part of the 's' quickedit with a div enclosure, if we think that is way to go.
The administration of user style sheets is a larger issue, of course, but the quickedit change would lay some foundation for that day.
It should be a style anyway, just so it's not tied in the HTML to the colour of the background.
Should be a style anyway, just so it's not tied in the HTML to the colour of the background.
I'm thinking in these terms:
. spoiler { font-family: "MS Sans Serif"; color: transparent; }
Which will allow changes in background color, without losing the blinvisbility of the spoiler.
There should already be something in the stylesheet. It's a class called "white-plus-sign". Not the best name, but I think it'll work.
"white-plus-sign" is committed to white. The "transparent" color val works fine with backgrounds that are not white.
Sorry -- I meant that we could change the white-plus-sign to transparent and it would do what it's currently doing as well as the spoiler font stuff.
t edit In fact, if we're talking about letting people change the background color, then we have to change the white-plus-sign class to work with that.
I meant that we could change the white-plus-sign to transparent and it would do what it's currently doing as well as the spoiler font stuff.
Yup. Change white-plus-sign to transparent, substitute the font replacement in quickedit to an enclosing white-plus-sign div. Easy peasy.
Actually, IIRC, you'd want to use a SPAN tag, not a DIV. A DIV puts its contents in its own paragraph, at least in some browsers (I'm too lazy to check the spec). SPAN does not.