User blog:Thisismyrofl/Suggestion: Chat PM visibility (With working CSS!)

Hey, this is Thisismyrofl, and it's time for Yet Another Chat Suggestion! However this time, I think it's something you'll all agree with.

Who hasn't had to deal with the torment of using an active wiki's chat and trying to use PMs? If there are lots of users on chat, you have to scroll down just to check if you have a PM... then scroll back up again to return to main chat!

An extremely simple fix would be to not scroll across the entire rail, but to only scroll on the userlist.

Installing a fix
I've found a tiny bit of CSS which changes the chat to function in the manner described, which is super useful.

To install, copy that to Special:Mypage/global.css (for use on all Wikia wikis) or Special:Mypage/wikia.css (for use on this wiki only). If either page does not exist, simply create it.

Chrome users
There is an issue with Chrome: it will not resize text areas to be smaller than the originally specified size. That's OK, but it means that you should make a tiny change. Switch  under #WikiChatList to   or so. That will make the userlist smaller: I think you'd prefer to have a larger userlist, but if you make it small originally then you can feel free to resize it to be as large as you want, and Chrome's defect would only impede you if you tried to make it even smaller than 40%... not likely.

Internet Explorer users
The click-and-drag resize functionality does not appear to work in even the most recent release of this browser. Sorry - you might not want to use this code.

I really think this behaviour should be the default! =\ This tiny bit of CSS has made my life so much easier. Until it's made official, we can stick to this.