Forum:User signature inside a span?

Is there any way to have user signatures ( ~ ) inside a or something like that? I guess I could make a template and ask users to sign by using that template, but then there would be signatures without the span, as some users would just use the four tildes. --paxed 11:06, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * There's no way to do it without user consent, but we do it voluntarily on GuildWiki. On holiday events, the span class (named sigpic) is activated in the common.css, and every user that chose to add the span class gets an image by their sig. (see GuildWiki:Sigpic for more information). There's no reason to do it automatically, and you certainly shouldn't ask users to sign using another method (as then, when they do edit another wiki, they'll be confused why their template doesn't work, a little like users who are encouraged to not subst: template signatures on their home wiki, and bring that horrible practice to other pages.) I also don't see how it'll make much sense, unless you want to add something like a sigpic to your wiki. Hope that helps. -- Random Time  11:49, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * Mainly I'd just want to make the sigs easier to see on talk pages and so on, possibly by adding faint borders around them or floating them to right or whatever. I find it somewhat silly there's all kinds of classes for pages, but no way to distinguish user-written text from sig. --paxed 11:58, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't see why sigs (unless it's some king of horrible custom one) should be floated to the left or right. If it's because of custom sigs, you might want to create and enforce a signature policy. There is no default span class for signatures. -- Random Time  12:01, September 11, 2010 (UTC)