[Clipart] Finished monkeying with the css for now

[jon at rejon.org]

Excellent...can you close out those css bugs with these excellent
notes. That way we can announce this on release...

cheers man! Great work!

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 3:49 AM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eeesh. I'm exhausted.
>
> I've finished monkeying with the css for now. There are still some issues
> hanging around but I've cleaned up a helluva lot.
>
> Short story is only put css inside widget css fields - if it's absolutely
> necessary.
> or global css goes into "main" widget css field.
> Don't use the global style.css method yet. - Until further notice or when we
> come up with a plan.
>
> There was waaay too much overcoding, and then people having to !important
> things so that their changes would take place. There still is a number of
> issues I want to sort out, involving the sideboxes, but it'll do for now.
> I'm going to take a break for awhile. The new css should make the site more
> readable, easier to add widgets, and overall efficiency of coding.
>
> I "fixed" the admin interface padding. The overlapping text was bugging me.
> simplified the sidebox h3 and p, and ul, and il 's so that you should only
> need to
>
> make the widget of class sidebox.
> Add <h3>title</h3>
> Add a div class = "wrapper"
> insert your content here.
> Close the wrapper div.
>
> majorly cleaned up the spacings of preview clipart related css.
> simplified and cut out numerous css locations, especially ones that needed
> to be more global
> found conflicting tag styling. removed or consolidated into "main"widget css
> field.
> I've de-activated the Activities section for now. I'm sorry Brad - I took
> some css out because I thought I could apply the sidebox to your activities
> box, and I didn't realise that the sidebox was hardcoded until too late.
> Please feel free to re-css the activites box and re-show it. I need to do
> more testing on freeing up the sidebox before I can do what I stated above.
> When I've finished freeing up the sidebox, it should mean that you won't
> have to specific any other side box ever again. We're not there yet, but
> getting closer.
>
> I think there was something else, but my brain is shot.
> peace out.
> --
> Cheers
> Chovynz
>
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