Forum:How to change the skin of the answers wiki

Hi to everyone. I have a problem, I have an answers wiki and I do have a skin, but the colors inside the page are too simple (blue and black). Is there a way to change that? Also, In the main page the two columns should be the same size, as the left column is bigger than the left side. If anyone could help, it would be great. Thanks in advance, -- ( (  (  (  Matias   )  )  )  )  ~  Talk   IRC  16:33, June 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * To say the sub answers skins are poorly documented is being overly kind. I would use Special:Contact and post the response you get here. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:32 PM PST 5 Jun 2010


 * From minimal experimentation, it looks like the sub answers skin doesn't really honor MediaWiki:Monaco.css or Special:MyPage/monaco.css changes, but does seem to honor MediaWiki:Common.css changes.
 * For example, you can change the article background color with the below in MediaWiki:Common.css:
 * So if you don't mind driving your users crazy you can play around in MediaWiki:Common.css. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:38 PM PST 5 Jun 2010
 * So if you don't mind driving your users crazy you can play around in MediaWiki:Common.css</tt>. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:38 PM PST 5 Jun 2010
 * So if you don't mind driving your users crazy you can play around in MediaWiki:Common.css</tt>. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:38 PM PST 5 Jun 2010
 * So if you don't mind driving your users crazy you can play around in MediaWiki:Common.css</tt>. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:38 PM PST 5 Jun 2010


 * Thanks! I'll do my best trying to change it. -- ( (  (  ( <font color="00AAFF"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Matias   )  )  )  )  ~ <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Talk  <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> IRC  21:44, June 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, it seems that there are just three problems and then the wiki will be perfect. First, here you can see that there is a white line above Welcome to Avatar Answers. What would you like to know?, I would like it to be black. Second, on the same page, the question is black and the background is black as well, so the question would need to be white. And finally, here (although this would work in all the wiki), if you scroll down it is too black, is there a way to add a white border to the main square? I you could help me it would be great! Thanks in advance, -- ( (  (  ( <font color="00AAFF"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Matias   )  )  )  )  ~ <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Talk  <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> IRC  21:55, June 5, 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure i'm seen the same thing that you're describing :
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— TulipVorlax 22:06, June 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, that is what I see. -- ( (  (  ( <font color="00AAFF"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Matias   )  )  )  )  ~ <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Talk  <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> IRC  22:09, June 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki:Common.css is the right place to be editing the stylesheet on new answers sites at the moment. It's important that if you define a background color that you also define a font color so that you don't end up with black text on a black background. I see that Game widow created the original skin for this wiki. Have you talking with her about the changes you'd like to see? Angela (talk | help forum) 01:23, June 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey Angela. Solar Dragon has been helping me with the skin (you can see our conversation here and here. Apparently it didn't work, and he said :Sorry, I don't know what is happening with the code. It is copied exactly but doesn't seem to want to work. If it is not working by tomorrow, contact me again and I will look into it. , So I guess we'll have to wait. -- ( (  (  ( <font color="00AAFF"><font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Matias   )  )  )  )  ~ <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> Talk  <font face="Papyrus" size="2"> IRC  03:24, June 6, 2010 (UTC)

I noticed you may be changing the wrong classes and ids to affect a bulk of Answers content and maybe that's the problem.

Here is a sample CSS from WoW.Answers that seems to affect the answers colors and styles:

You might want to take some of this and mess with it, since alot of the base Monaco.css doesn't seem to affect much of the Answers skin.

Of course, info from Wikia would be better, but they appear to put sub Answers support somewhat low on the priority list. The Answers forum is pretty quiet.

-- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:43 PM PST 5 Jun 2010

I don't know why it is doing this. The code is copied exactly how it was into my wiki and it worked fine. 07:21, June 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * It is possible that there are different versions of the sub answers skin out there and some things don't work the same on each one. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:14 PM PST 6 Jun 2010


 * If it works on Fable Answers, it should work on Avatar Answers. My guess is that it's caching and it will start working once that clears. Angela (talk | help forum) 04:46, June 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've edited the skin on Ibanez Answers (is there a way to create a interwiki link to sub answers sites?) but i've done it in Mediawiki:Monaco.css. Seems fine for Firefox (Mac) and Safari, don't know if it works correctly for IE. BramTalk/IGW 08:54, June 7, 2010 (UTC)

link give link — TulipVorlax 11:45, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * That looks awfully logical :D Anyone any idea on what would be the problem of using Monaco.css on Sub Answers wikis instead of Common.css? I mean: editing common.css influences all skins, so if a user wants to use an other skin, that might not be possible or he or she might get a faulty look (for example, if the common.css changes based on a light skin are mixed with a user selected dark skin). BramTalk/IGW 17:10, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki:Answers.css is supposed to work, but currently doesn't. Using common.css is a work around until that one starts working normally. Angela (talk | help forum) 20:13, June 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * It turns out that MediaWiki:Answers.css does work! You need to set "Let the admins override my skin choice" in your preferences on an answers wiki - the setting doesn't yet carry over from non-answers wikis. Secondly, you must set the wiki to "custom" skin (in preferences if you're an admin). Angela (talk | help forum) 20:53, June 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Getting a user, especially anonymous ones, to set their preferences to see your skin changes seems like a long shot. Is "Let the admins override my skin choice" the effective default for anonymous users and the default for new users? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 3:36 PM PST 7 Jun 2010