Forum:Monobook Skin 2

Now, I realize that Monobook isn't necessarily the easiest of skins to style, but I decided to restyle the Monobook skin for my own purposes anyways, since I like Monobook due to its simple nature. At some point, I went to the Wikipedia article on web colors to start getting some ideas, and I came across something rather strange: On the Wikipedia Monobook, the content box expands as far as your screen can handle. This looks very nice on any screen, as all the space on the screen is devoted to content. On the other hand, look at Community Central's version of Monobook. On my screen, sitting on the right side of the page, sits a very outstanding margin. I go into my Firebug on Firefox, and I find this rather ugly piece of code as the first CSS for Wikia's Monobook skin: body.with-adsense #content {   margin: 2.8em 125px 0 12.2em; border-right: solid 1px rgb(170,170,170); } This is exactly what's causing this margin to appear. What's even more interesting is that border-right coding, which inherently puts a border on the right side of the content page. I tried this out on my user CSS subpage on Wikipedia, I ended up with exactly what I see on my Monobook here, except with no border on the right, which means that Monobook wasn't meant to have this margin on the right. Now, I'd like to ask why is a tenth of my computer screen devoted to whitespace when it could easily be devoted to regular content? R A N 1  (talk • contributions) 22:48, April 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * That's where the ad (hence "with-adsense") used to be before all of Wikia switched to Monaco, but it never changed back once it was only logged-in users who could use Monobook. I'm fairly sure that you can get rid of this with CSS, by changing something in the margin selector. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  22:58, April 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah. Well, that clears up a lot. In that case, I'd like to ask if Wikia will switch back to leaving Monobook unbounded since AdSense is disabled for Monobook. R A N 1  (talk • contributions) 23:03, April 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've use that rule to set a right margin of 5px instead of 125, but some JS script of them execute after the CSS is loaded (normal) and change it back to 125px.
 * Did you tried using special:contact about this ? — TulipVorlax 18:09, April 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've wondered this as well, if you do get a response via contact, could you let us know here as well? --Tlosk 18:24, April 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've run it through Special:Contact, but given how they didn't respond to one of my Special:Contacts earlier, it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Also, there's no JS script involved. It's a caching effect from the Wikia servers since there's some lag time in between when you save it, and when you actually see the results after clearing your browser's cache. I've managed to run this in a preview mode on my wiki, and nothing caused the skin to revert back to its default state. R A N <font color="#555">1  <font face="Monotype Corsiva">(talk • contributions) 19:21, April 18, 2010 (UTC)