Observations on the new MyBBS layout

[Oddysey]

ProxRocks,

Quote:can anything be done about the dashed borders around the code and quote inserts?
the dashes look, well, dorky...

Don't tell me that someone took away your Dork Merit Badge, that would suck the hind one.

On one forum I visit regularly, the quoted text is so small that I had to write a filter to insert HTML size coding to enlarge it so that my tired old eyes could read it. (That's on a proboards.com site, BTW.) Which leads me down the primrose path to this observation:

The offending lines of code are div statements that call, from a d/l'ed style sheet, quote_header and quote_body. These two are called one right after the other, and they have roughly the same setup, to wit:
(Ignore the PHP Code header!!)

PHP Code:

.quote_header {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px dashed #000;
    border-bottom: 0;
    color: #000;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 8px auto 0 auto;
    padding: 4px;
}

.quote_body {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px dashed #000;
    border-top: 0;
    color: #000;
    padding: 4px;
    margin: 0 auto 8px auto;
} 


Seems easy enough to me to make a filter that will replace the border attribute dashed with some other type, perhaps solid, or even nothing at all, and see what happens. Oh, and the [code] and [php] tags are the same thing, just change the names to protect the guilty.

Just a thought, tha's all.


Oddysey


p.s. Curses, there's another flaw.... the styles above are indented as usual in this kind of definition, but MyBBS formats them to remove the indents. Even using the [code] tag doesn't help, the indents are still removed. Only by using the [php] tag do the indents remain intact. Mama mia!