Thread:Project:Support desk/Auto resize of pages

Appologies in advance for stupid questions. I'm a DB engineer, never written PHP, CSS or HTML in my life, and this is my 1st MediaWiki install. I have looked for hours for an answer, though....

I've brought up MW v1.19.20 on Turnkey Linux v13 (Debian 7.2 Wheezy) with MySQL 5.5.43 and PHP 5.4.4-14. I know the stack is out of-date, but it's stable and it comes as a canned VM appliance. And the site works. I've chosen the Vector skin. That also works. But the footer and left side panel do not adjust according to the browser window dimensions. If page content is brief, the footer bar ends up in the middle of the screen. And the bottom of the left side panel does not adjust down to the bottom of the screen.

And while I'm whining, I cannot find an answer re: how to set the overall background color of the wiki. #mw-body { background-color=red; } does not work for me when saved in either MediaWiki:Vector.css or MediaWiki:Common.css.

Being able to have the panels resize OR setting the overall background color might look OK, but with neither the site looks pretty stupid.

It's frustrating to spend hours trying to work through something that some of you out there could solve in 60 seconds. At least I'm hoping you can...

Thanks,

Sean.