Welcome, Cranky Users! This is serious internet business! It's been quiet in the Cranky Department as we await word of upcoming new deployments that might fix any of our remaining pet peeves. In these parts, we pride ourselves on some of the world's finest hand-raised, long-tailed peeves, peeves that are Grand Champions at the annual Peeve Show yet flamboyantly fail their every obedience course. It's a shame to get them fixed before they've had a chance to breed, really, but we know this is best. We run through our budget for Purina Peeve Chow™ quick enough as it is.
Let's slip past the squiggle and see if we can pick up a few tips that might improve our experience at DK4 while we're waiting.
Some people like the header typestyle in the WHERE TO TURN box we've been putting at the end of Cranky diaries. They ask, How do we do that? It's easy! I will once again credit and recommend this excellent long-titled how-to diary by fiver that helps with all kinds of diary formatting. There are two header styles available for use in DK4, with their own html tags:
<h1>Header Style</h1> |
Header Style
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<h2>Header Style</h2> |
Header Style
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And as long as we're talking here, how do people get that "teletype" typestyle in their sig lines? I actually find the look of that very discordant and it makes me crankily not want to read those comments! But speaking as a question-answerer, there is a tag for that too:
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<tt>Teletype Style</tt> |
Teletype Style |
And how do they get those horizontal lines?
Why, they use the horizontal rule! Contrary to what students in young ladies' colleges were told 50 years ago, that is not "One foot on the floor at all times." A horizontal rule is a divider line, and we get it with another tag! And unlike the tags we've seen before, it's not a pair of tags -- it has its own closing slash, because unlike a typestyle or a table or the like, it doesn't contain anything. It just is.
A plain one like the first one above (under the Teletype style) looks like this: <hr />
But of course, you can make it fancier. You can give it a size and color. The color uses the same codes we looked at in the diary about tables and boxes, but now, we can look at the deeper colors because we don't need text to show up against them.
<hr color="#FF3366" size="1" />
<hr color="#66FF33" size="4" />
<hr color="#660099" size="9" />
<hr color="#66CC99" size="22" />
Or use noshade to make generic gray ones. If you leave color out entirely, the thin ones look like lines, but thicker ones look like skinny boxes:
<hr noshade size="9" />
<hr size="9" />
Use these with caution, Cranky People! You will most certainly annoy some readers whenever you deploy visual elements that break out of the standard appearance of the page they're reading. Please don't do it just to be difficult! I have never been good with decorum (decoration, yes) and it will be so hard for me to scold you!
{sigh} Yes, they work in comments too. You can make them some percentage of the width of your available space, as well: <hr color="#FF6600" size="4" width="50%">
Please join us in the comments to share your Cranky thoughts!
Update: h/t to Julie Waters for html correction on color codes.
WHERE TO TURN: LINKS
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☀ For immediate catharsis, complain in a Cranky Users thread. These threads are regularly scanned by kos and developers, but it's not a guaranteed way to bring an issue to the attention of these folks. But sometimes you just need some sympathy from other cranky people! (And sometimes, other cranky people have advice that can help you.)
Our thanks to kos, the development team, and the Dkosopedia contributors for their vigorous efforts to deliver a site that works well and to help us know how to work it!
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