Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24155515-20160703210938

I'm drafting an article rating system proposal on the wiki I admin, but one of the obstacles to getting it near completion is that I can't get the icons to go high enough in the default skin to not basically be in line with article text.

This is what they look like in Monobook, based off the way Wikipedia makes top icons display: http://wreckitralph.wikia.com/wiki/User:Citrusellaeditswikis/Help_drafts/Quality_assessment_draft?useskin=monobook

As of right now, the same icons in the default skin won't go higher than the first line of the article's part of the page. I'd like to have them display at least in the same line the edit button is on, maybe even a little higher (like above the horizontal line), but I'm not sure how possible that is. It appears messing with the CSS to try to force it higher starts cutting off the top of the icons.

I'm not well-versed in CSS, so I may be missing something, but is there a way to achieve this? I note Wookieepedia made it happen (in both skins), but their template is also using Lua and I don't know if that changes things.

I have a couple alternatives if it isn't possible, but I'd like both skins to use similar ways of display, as opposed to, say, a top icon in Monobook and a small table near the top of the article in the main skin. 