Thread:Project:Support desk/Controlling how a page's Categories appear on the page/reply (2)

I'd guessed it was only the CSS I'd need to check, and I used the Firefox Developer Console to check what the "category" list is in the HTML; it seems to be "catlinks", but I couldn't figure out what would change that, since my (self-made, Mono-based) skin didn't have any variables that seemed to affect list item display.

But you inspired me -- I checked the 'common' skin directory, and the shared.css file, which seems to have all the catlinks CSS in it. I copied and pasted the relevant lines into my self-made skin, and categories now display inline.

No idea what was changing the inherited CSS, though -- seems like there's nothing in the skin itself that should deactivate the shared.css parameters.

However, now that I've changed the CSS to have all the "list-style: none;" and "display: inline-block;", the left menu bar items (Main Page, Special Pages, etc.) all appear below the main content block. So apparently these are all affected by the catlinks style? Somewhere, the "display: block" styles aren't playing nicely with each other... but I can't figure out where. Is it going to be easier to hunt through all my skin's CSS, or try to come up with a new one based on Vector?