Forum:About Background customization

Hello, c:gaia:Gaiapedia

I want to try and give some life to the Oasis skin background, since all the customization was done on Monobook. The way the original Admin had it, is that certain pages display a certain background. For example a page relating to Valentines day would display a heart background. I am trying to get this effect over to Oasis, but do I place the code on Wikia.css or Common.css? -- Bunai82 (talk) 04:32, September 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * Placing the code in Common css affects both Oasis and Monobook, placing it in Wikia.css only affects Oasis.--


 * Last I checked Common.css doesn't affect Oasis. — Sovq 05:13, September 23, 2011 (UTC)


 * I think Common.css does not work at all but in theory it should affect both, hence the name common.--

...? So which would it be? -- Bunai82 (talk) 06:56, September 26, 2011 (UTC)


 * Wikia.css affects Oasis, so if you want to customize Oasis that's the page you should edit. — Sovq 07:13, September 26, 2011 (UTC)
 * Commons.css does affect Oasis if you @import it into MediaWiki:Wikia.css. 12:50, September 26, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah follow this guide.


 * Anything imported to Wikia.css, not only Common.css, will affect Oasis, but the question was "do I place the code on Wikia.css or Common.css". So the answer is Wikia.css. On a sidenote - with that many differences between Oasis and Monobook I never understood why editors still insist on importing Common.css to Wikia.css. It's not like there's that many shared classes and even less of them which, when customized, look good in both skins. — Sovq 06:44, September 27, 2011 (UTC)


 * Sovq, Common.css is important for wikis that style things like the pre and code elements, as well as template styles that appear on many pages. I think you'd agree that it's important to have your templates look the same in all skins. :P --Gardimuer { ʈalk } 16:56, September 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually no. While I'll try to use the measly 660px content space in Oasis as efficiently as possible when using templates, I won't have to do that in Monobook, with the sweet wide screen mode - this difference will affect my decisions regarding template styles in the style sheets (padding, margin, border-width etc.). The skins, for me at least, are too different from each other, to make shared styling worthwhile. Even more so, Wikia constantly changing the style sheet in Oasis, forces me to adjust my own. If I had to additionally check if such an adjustment doesn't by accident affect Monobook every time I do it, I would quickly grow tired of it. I agree that styling some elements, like for "code" or "pre" blocks seems more intuitive, but I still consider having two separate sheets a 'cleaner' solution. I guess it's a matter of opinion though. — Sovq 18:08, September 28, 2011 (UTC)


 * In case it wasn't clear... MediaWiki:Common.css does NOT affect Oasis. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 27 Sep 2011 12:13 AM Pacific

I'm getting some help with it, I'll see if it works on either one. -- Bunai82 (talk) 03:19, September 28, 2011 (UTC)