Manual:Interface/Stylesheets

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

If $wgAllowUserCss 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 $wgAllowSiteCSSOnRestrictedPages .

List of stylesheets

• Global stylesheets:
  • 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)
  • User group CSS (per user group, for example MediaWiki:Group-sysop.css)
  • MediaWiki:Noscript.css (for users viewing without JavaScript; may be replaced with a body.client-nojs selector)
  • MediaWiki:Print.css (for "printable versions" of pages)
  • MediaWiki:Mobile.css (for Mobile themes, used with Extension:MobileFrontend )
  • MediaWiki:Filepage.css specifically targeted to have Commons file pages (foreign repositories) work on 'local' file pages.

• Personal stylesheets (only yourself and users with the editusercss right, usually interface admins, can edit your personal stylesheets):
  • 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 Extension:GlobalCssJs is in use in for this family)

See also

• Help:Skins
• Help:User style
• Help:Cascading Style Sheets
• Explaining skins