Remove the black border from quick reply

[foxfirefey]

Title:
Remove the black border from quick reply

Area:
styles, site scheme

Summary:
The more I see the black border around ALL the quick replies (aka inline commenting), the more and more I dislike it. We should get rid of it.

Description:
As mentioned above, taking away the black border that's inline styled on the quick reply box. The quick reply box has an ID that CSS can target, so individual styles should be able to do what they want, without having to override a hard-coded in color. The hard-coded in color is pointless on most light-on-dark layouts, anyway, and might look unsynchronized with other layouts' color schemes.

I'm making this a suggestion just in case anybody can come up with a reason to keep it, because I sure can't.

Poll #4952 Remove the black border from quick reply

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (47.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (7.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (5.5%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (36.4%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.6%)

Comments

[melannen]

So... the quick reply box is this thing I'm typing my comment in, right? And the horrible black border is the 1px line with rounded corners around it, which looks medium-gray rather than black in tropo siteschemes?

Because otherwise I'm afraid I have no idea what you're talking about. (I suspect this is a suggestion of no relevance to people like me who consider all custom comment pages a blight upon the internets, but since I didn't know what you were referring to and Googling didn't clarify much, I thought I ought to ask.)

[foxfirefey]

Yeah, that's pretty much it, although I'm confused a bit because even in, say, Tropo Red, it's black and doesn't have rounded corners?

<table style="border: 1px solid black;">

[melannen]

Okay, either we're still talking about something different, or something very strange is going on here.

The standard comment box that shows up when I click "reply" does not have a 1px black border; it's got a shaded/3d border that's darker on two sides than the other two. In Opera it's 1px with rounded corners in medium grays; in firefox it's got sharp corners, with 2px black on the shaded sides and 1px light gray + 1px white on the highlight sides.

The code you quoted doesn't show up in the source for the pages I get, either? In fact on the site scheme pages there's no <table style= at all, which is probably why it displays differently in the two browsers. I freely admit that styles confuses me, though, so I may just be missing something obvious. I just don't ever remember seeing a 1px black border around anything comment-related, which is why this suggestion puzzled me. ETA: Wait wait wait, do you mean the moving comment box that appears without reloading to a new page? ...I have just realized that I don't get those any more. Why do I not get those anymore? When did I stop? Why didn't I notice?

[denise]

If you don't get those, it's likely because you've got JS turned off, or your browser is having trouble with the JS required. (I seem to recall something about Opera not liking the javascript used.)

[melannen]

Nope, javascript's on, and it doesn't work on any of the three browsers I have installed, including the newest firefox, whether I'm logged in or not, on custom styles or not.

I bet my javascript install somehow managed to set itself back to an old version, or something. I'm going to go try to reinstall java and see if that fixes it.

(This leaves open the question of why I didn't notice when they went away, though. my memory, it scares me sometimes)

Edit: yep, that worked! And okay, I see the black boxes now, I'm off to change my vote.

[matgb]

can't help with why you didn't notice nor why they went, but you don't install javascript, your browser reads it same as html. You install Java, but that's completely separate and shouldn't affect it. Could be an extension or something?

[musyc]

I like having the black box there because it helps me to identify where the comment section is. The light edges of the internal boxes are far more difficult to see without having a visual "here in this square" sort of marker. I don't mind it being changed to something less obtrusive (a greyish color, a scheme-matching color, etc.), but I don't want it disappearing completely.

[foxfirefey]

I'm okay with adding it back in in site schemes and styles and whatnot--but it should be fitted to the style and not hardcoded. For instance, it's near indistinguishable in the Gradation site schemes, because it's almost the same color as the background there!

[musyc]

*nod* I'd be all right with a purple/red border for Tropo, but I could see how the current black would be practically invisible in Gradation. Style/scheme matching would be nice.

[cesy]

+1

[ninetydegrees]

+1

And I'd like to keep it black on schemes where black is visible.

[vampwillow]

+1

[zing_och]

Yes, this.

[susanreads]

Yes, the commenting area needs to be set off either with a border or a background colour change. I'd rather leave the border there but have the colour be part of the style code, so it could be changed per site skin and per theme.

Also, it's a table element? *looks at page source* Gosh, there's quite a few table elements. I guess that's so that the boxes line up neatly.

[aedifica]

+1