Manual:Interface/Stylesheets

MediaWiki:Common.css is a Cascading Style Sheet loaded after the active Skin's stylesheet. This stylesheet is loaded with all and a similar stylesheet specific to the skin – named "" – is appended to it (see below). Although only Monobook.css is listed on Special:AllMessages, the other skin-specific stylesheets will work nonetheless.

If is set to true, users can customize the interface for themselves only by creating user subpages with lowercase titles (see below).

Global stylesheets won't load on special restricted pages like login or preferences, unless you enable.

Global stylesheets
These are stylesheets that affect all users of the wiki, depending on their setup — what skin they use, their user group, etc.


 * MediaWiki:Common.css - all skins and all the users, except for the MobileFrontend
 * MediaWiki:skinname.css - per skin, skinname is the value of that variable in the PHP file of your skin, for example MediaWiki:Vector.css, MediaWiki:Monobook.css
 * - per user group, for example MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css
 * MediaWiki:Noscript.css - for users viewing without JavaScript ; may be replaced with a selector
 * MediaWiki:Print.css - for "printable versions" of pages
 * MediaWiki:Mobile.css - for Mobile themes, used with
 * MediaWiki:Filepage.css - specifically targeted to have Commons file pages (foreign repositories) work on 'local' file pages.

Personal stylesheets
These are stylesheets that only yourself and users with the right, usually interface admins, can edit.


 * User:Example/common.css - all skins - introduced in MW v1.17
 * User:Example/skinname.css - per skin, for example User:Example/vector.css and User:Example/monobook.css
 * User:Example/global.css - per wiki family, if is in use in for this family