Thread:Undead.exe/@comment-4714517-20160816170522/@comment-5454372-20160817001251

Pardon the third ping, but may or may not have another interim solution for now, though this one's a bit more fiddly depending on what wiki you're on.

@Kuopiofi or anyone on powerlisting.wikia.com:
Try out this particular code version and see if it mostly behaves as expected. If it causes anything unexpected, let me know, and I'll take another look when I can.

For anyone else reading this:
Short DIY explanation of what I did to get that bit of code:


 * 1) Go to the wiki where you want to view the old fluid layout, then open any page in edit mode
 * 2) Append  to the edit page URL (right at the end of it, after  ), refresh the page, and then right-click and "view page source"
 * 3) Ctrl-F for "stylesheet", and then click the link that comes up just after  on the same line
 * 4) Copy that looong line of CSS code underneath, and paste it into your personal CSS on that wiki (i.e. navigate to Special:MyPage/common.css on the wiki you're on).
 * 5) If you want to merge it with the original code I had at User:Undead.exe/OldOasis.css, make a copy of OldOasis, and then locate the line which says . Replace everything above that line with the code you copied in Step 4.

Why I just posted those instructions:
If you try to use the code I just gave to Kuopiofi on any other wiki besides the Superpower wiki...you'll pretty much end up making whatever wiki you just used it on look exactly like the Superpower one, with the old fluid layout. Kinda amusing, but definitely not what people are after.

Are there things I overlooked? Quite possibly, because I don't know if all pages on a wiki draw from the same single pool of CSS. Now that I think of it, they probably don't, since you can set page-specific CSS which may or may not be loaded in that page source link.

Is there a way to strip out all the colour and background changes? There must have been, because that's apparently what I did the first time I got OldOasis working -- except it's nothing more than a repetitive process of Ctrl+F for all color and image references to remove them. I could theoretically try my hand at writing a Python or JS script to automatically do it all at some point, but I'm a little short on free time these days.

TL/DR: this *kind* of works as a quick fix, but there may well be stuff I've overlooked for now. My personal mindset is more along the lines of the final paragraph in my message before this one: it might make more sense to switch over to using OldFontSize rather than OldOasis, simply because the fluid layout's becoming less relevant over time, and Wikia's new updates will keep breaking custom CSS that we put together (though the DIY method described above still seems to work decently for getting something that's maybe at least 80-90% there).