Manual:Gallery of user styles/Tlogmer's EasyReader

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  • Based on: Monobook
  • Author: User:Tlogmer
  • Compatible with MediaWiki version(s): (unknown)
  • Last updated: (unknown)
  • Description:
    The paragraph that the mouse-pointer is over shows strong links; links are less intrusive in other paragraphs.

This is a tiny CSS file that introduces subtle interactive cues; you can use the whole thing, or any part individually.

The most obvious change is that links are less intrusive; there are also options (off by default) for double spacing, text width, and (most coolly) a multicolumn layout.

Two Columns. Help? The multicolumn layout doesn't work very well, which is why it's off by default -- it works great for some long articles, but tends to squash short articles, break long article beginnings (all those templates), and totally fubar the main page.

This could be easily fixed -- just put a new DIV around all the text below the table of contents (for example) and have the 2-column CSS act on that. (Better yet, put a div around each top-level section of the article and only apply the CSS if the section's long.) Unfortunately, I don't know javascript, so I can't do this myself -- let me know if you're willing/able to help. Thanks, Topaz! Tlogmer

See also: m:User:Celestianpower/tabs