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Any CSS experts here?
The reason I ask is that I suspect it might be possible to fix the issue that chops images off at the fixed width of the message text.
I have looked at the CSS for the forum, and it does not illuminate the issue for me. But then, I am an old HTML stick-in-the-mud and never had any truck with this new-fangled stuff.
If you think you might be able to shed some light on the problem, please respond.
(I tried to include the CSS in this post, but it is too long.)
I have looked at the CSS for the forum, and it does not illuminate the issue for me. But then, I am an old HTML stick-in-the-mud and never had any truck with this new-fangled stuff.
If you think you might be able to shed some light on the problem, please respond.
(I tried to include the CSS in this post, but it is too long.)
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
I say, that is a truly porcine css file!
EDIT: A cursory inspection shows several (!) entries of the form
If you do so, however, I fear you risk running afoul of Campbell's Law of Interconnectedness — this monstrosity of a css file is over 4700 lines (not a typo) in length, and that is just TOO BLASTED BIG!
EDIT: A cursory inspection shows several (!) entries of the form
- Code:
.content: {
blah;
blah;
overflow: hidden;
...
}
- Code:
overflow: scroll;
- Code:
.content img {
overflow: scroll;
}
If you do so, however, I fear you risk running afoul of Campbell's Law of Interconnectedness — this monstrosity of a css file is over 4700 lines (not a typo) in length, and that is just TOO BLASTED BIG!
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Re: Any CSS experts here?

At any rate, I was poking about in the admins' forum and found a bit of code that seems to work: it still restricts the width of any picture to 800, but now it shrinks them instead of just chopping them off.
This is not the solution I was looking for, which would be a horizontal scrolling-based fix.
I shall continue to troll the admins' forum.
Oh, I also found a hack for adding national flags, if anybody really wants them. It seems to have some unusual ones, such as Wales and the Olympics flag for whatever reason ...
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OldProfessorBear- Ætheric engineer (admin)
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
Yikes.
Now it seems to be displaying arbitrary flags ... I shall shut it off again!
[edit] Fixed flags. See that thread.
Now it seems to be displaying arbitrary flags ... I shall shut it off again!
[edit] Fixed flags. See that thread.
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
I need to learn more about computers, it seems. When I read the title of this thread, refering as it does to the term "CSS", I came in here fully expecting to see information on the Confederate Navy!
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
Oh me bleedin' eyeballs. I just had another look at the CSS, and it's not at all obvious where one might (and might not) want to insert the scrolling code.
Incidentally, looking at the admins' forum, there are a number of complaints about oversized pictures distorting the forum, i.e., making the page itself too wide. How it is that we have the inverse problem I do not know, though I suppose it has to do with the different board styles that are available when you set it up.
The line I inserted at the end of the CSS, which automagically resizes too-wide pictures is simply this:
Incidentally, looking at the admins' forum, there are a number of complaints about oversized pictures distorting the forum, i.e., making the page itself too wide. How it is that we have the inverse problem I do not know, though I suppose it has to do with the different board styles that are available when you set it up.
The line I inserted at the end of the CSS, which automagically resizes too-wide pictures is simply this:
- Code:
.post img{max-width: 800px;}
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Sexagenarian Boy Genius and SUPREME NERD GOD!!! (score=98!)
Down in the Bear Cave under Cantabrigia Castle, Geekhaven, MA, US
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
I was having a poke about with the CSS on Saturday morning (UK time) & was rtying to work out how one would go about making the upper-background dissapear, so you could see the paisly underneath- anyone got any ideas? (1/2 the problem is finding the corresponding code- but that I can work out by trial & error)
Re: Any CSS experts here?
OldProfessorBear wrote:Oh me bleedin' eyeballs. I just had another look at the CSS, and it's not at all obvious where one might (and might not) want to insert the scrolling code.
Incidentally, looking at the admins' forum, there are a number of complaints about oversized pictures distorting the forum, i.e., making the page itself too wide. How it is that we have the inverse problem I do not know, though I suppose it has to do with the different board styles that are available when you set it up.
The line I inserted at the end of the CSS, which automagically resizes too-wide pictures is simply this:
- Code:
.post img{max-width: 800px;}
Well, that definitely fixed the problem I was complaining about earlier. Thanks!!
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Re: Any CSS experts here?
If your browser has the capability (may require a plugin), you should be able to right-click on any resized picture and see it full-size in another window/tab.
Just a tip.
Just a tip.
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Sexagenarian Boy Genius and SUPREME NERD GOD!!! (score=98!)
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