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?style=light - add white space to sides of text
Title:
?style=light - add white space to sides of text
Area:
styles
Summary:
put in white space (inch and a half maybe?) on both sides of the text, so the text column is only about 8-9 inches wide
Description:
(Per recommendation, copying my comment to dw-news 2010-09-08):
(quote) Favorite New Things - #2, this is the part that I adore -- adding a one-touch ?style=mine or ?style=light link(end quote)
Absolutely. Due to mild vision issues, I use this on most posts not taken directly from my "flist" page.
One question/suggestion for the formatting on the ?style=light: would it be possible to put in white space (inch and a half maybe?) on both sides of the text, so the text column is only about 8-9 inches wide? (Again due to those same mild vision issues, it is difficult to track lines clear across the width of the screen.)
Thank you so much for a great site!
This suggestion:
Should be implemented as-is.
8 (21.6%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.4%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
14 (37.8%)
(I have no opinion)
13 (35.1%)
(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)
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So, um. Yeah. How to resolve the conundrum of people needing exactly the opposite things?
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Of course, the question is, where is that point, and what percentage of people are served by each of the possible options.
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Believe me, I'm just kidding there. I know that sometimes you get stuck in a situation where you're bound to make some people upset, since you can't please everyone all the time. Mostly, I just figured a comment would be a good way to get my two cents in.
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And commenting is a good way to get your two cents in indeed! I look at the poll results, but it's only one small factor I use in decisions; I also use comments, issues brought up in discussion, and my own personal experience in watching people use LJ and DW since 2001. It's why I'm so careful to say that poll votes are not a majority-rule sort of thing; there have been cases in the past where really popular suggestions got rejected because of one really fantastic and compelling argument against in the comments, for instance, or cases where I judge the reward of the suggestion not worth the time it would take to implement it (in cases where it would require a rewrite of everything) or not worth the security risk it introduces, yadda.
The polls, and the suggestions, do do a great job of letting me know what people think about things, and how strongly they feel about it; I'd say it's about 75% of my decision. But the other 25% is important too.
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Basically: I currently find style=light difficult to read, and would find it easier to read if the text column had larger margins. But I can see why it's helpful for people who read large-print, or on small screens, or prefer longer column widths. And I currently have a workaround (but one I wish I had in the navigation bar!)
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javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='body%20{%20margin-right:%205%25;%20!%20important;%20margin-left:%2010%25%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();
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See below for more possibilities (my comment on style, and Denise and matgb on CSS).
I'm (still) using MIE, and I haven't been able to set bookmarklets. Could be I'm just not doing it right?
*hugs*
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IT'll have a field to name the 'favourite', so call it 'DW narrow margins' or something, and then a field for the address. Copy the code in there.
That should then work. I'll dig out my IE and try it if it doesn't.
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The CSS is a great solution!
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I am not saying this to be snarky, but I feel like you are asking for two different things here, and one thing (can we make the light style have a fixed width margin) I am firmly opposed to, as it's a style that purposively makes few changes to the user's own browser style, however they have set or not set it, and the other (can we give it some more whitespace) which I am more receptive to, but which I think will not have your desired effect (making lines a predictable length) on those occasions when you use a different viewing set up, if you ever view DW from a computer not your own. (Which, possibly you never do.)
I do think changing the 8 px body margin to a 1em body margin might not be a bad thing, but I don't feel very strongly about it. I don't know if it would be enough additional whitespace to help anyone, and it might be enough of a change to frustrate those who prefer the style because of its long line lengths.
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Eek. Most of this is Greek to me. However, please see my comment right below this.
Unfortunately, changing the browser width doesn't work for me (it absolutely drives me bonkers to have the desktop showing while reading--too cluttered).
Thank you very much for the style! ♥
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OK, am I allowed to have a facepalm moment?
I use "EasyRead by zvi" in the "High Contrast White" which actually gives me just about what I need (the column could be narrower even for my preference).
So, from the navigation strip I should have been using the ?style=mine link instead of the ?style=light link.
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Thank you :)
See comment below and my reply, I think I've got it (for now at least).
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I'm poking around with the style to figure out how to make it narrower for you. Hang on; my CSS is not the best, but I can totally get it the way you want it.
EDIT: Got it. With this, you'll be able to make the column as narrow as you want.
1. Go to http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=customcss
2. Go to the large box in the bottom, labeled "Use embedded CSS" (the label's at the bottom of the box, but it's the largest of the ones there)
3. Copy and paste this in that box:
4. Hit "Save Changes" and view your journal. If that doesn't make it narrow enough for you, you can change the "10" into whatever number you want -- just keep the 'em' there. So, "15em", "20em", etc.
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Fantastic!
Yes, thank you, that does it.
It only changes the post content, not the page header or the comments section. But, that is fine by me.
This goes in my "tech" memories.
*hugs*
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Yes, after working with this a little more, getting the comments also would be great (header is fine as is).
And for matgb's suggestion about max-width, two questions:
Do I want a space after the colon?
Would I replace both lines that say "margin" with one, and leave the
!important;
at the end of it?
(Hm, maybe for comments just replace the word "entry" with "comments"?)
I've never done any coding, so your copy/paste is really appreciated.
I'll be AFK until Monday or Tuesday.
A million thanks!
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Replace both margin lines with the max-width line, the important shouldn't be needed but won't hurt.
And yes, I think .comment would work (it depends on how the code is resolved, everything is given a name by the developer, as I don't use your style, and you haven't any public entries with comments, I can't be sure, but the default name is .comment (no 's').
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p.s. I went with 7 instead of 10.
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I worked around this on my layout by putting a max-width command in, for mine it was max-width:1200px, which given my main column is set at 60% gives me a nice sixe, but max-width:30em would probably do the job as well, and give the same effect on any and every monitor setup.
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