Starter Stylesheet

[chasethestars]

Here is a stylesheet that combines the elements from the various theme stylesheet and theme-variation stylesheets into one, with all the extra Vox stuff stripped out. This is a useful starting point if you're creating a completely new layout, not just making color/font/header changes. (You might also want to read this first)

Comments

[kunzite1]

/* Win IE>7 */ will (should) throw an error in the css parser.

[kunzite1]

and it's actually < but i think either will trip it.

[nimoloth]

Won't it ignore it because it's in a comment? Anything within a comment tag (namely /* */) should be invisible to the parser.

[kunzite1]

if it's invisible to the parser (which i'm sure it's not) i could put nasty javascript in there to snatch cookies from people using browsers that don't understand css comments...

[diziara]

I used this style sheet to work with my community, starbase668 and I'm not sure if I'm just being blind (I'm sick, it's possible) or if there really isn't anything specifying the styling for the user icons in your style sheet here. I want the text to wrap around them like they do in the style I'm using on my journal, and from what I've seen, every other standard expressive style, so I figure they need a float: left; added to the styling for the user pic container, but I'm still too sick to dig for which name or class is applied, so I was hoping it was something I just failed to see while scanning the code.

Help please.

[natterfly]

Hi, I'm no expert (I've just been experimenting with customising the stylesheet) but I added a float: left and some padding to .user-icon, which I found from using the visual guide in this post.

Hope that helps. :)

[diziara]

I'm pretty sure that's what I already tried, however now that I'm trying it again, I'm trying to validate the CSS to make sure there aren't any sloppy mistakes, and I can't because the style isn't sound in HTML. Meh. This is why I usually try not to use other peoples styles for things, however I am not a programmer, so I can't use s2 if I don't use other people's styles. Meh.

Thank you for trying to help, I'll keep poking at it.

[sparkythegeek]

I'm admittedly new (and clueless) to CSS. What I want to do is set Trebuchet MS as my font while using Expressive Seasonal (with the Aurora layout). I tried copying the above and changing the font set to Trebuchet MS, but when I did, it removed the background image even WITH the URL in place.

Anyone have any idea how to help? Thanks in advance!

[av8rmike]

You should look through the posts tagged with "fonts". If you still can't find anything, post a top-level entry (to the community itself).

[sparkythegeek]

Thanks!

[sparkythegeek]

Thanks so much - I found an entry where you'd assisted (twice) and copy/pasted and tweaked to my preferred font!

[corinrae]

Thank you so much for this! I've been looking for a CSS starter sheet to play with, and this is just the thing I was looking for! :D

[irrimiri]

First of all, thanks for these handy tutorials on how to change the LJ lay-outs.

I have been able to use most of this, but I came accross a tiny problem

I am using the California Poppies template and have been able to adjust most important stuff about it, except for the red border that's underneath the header.
I cannot seem to find that bit of css script for it.
Maybe someone can help me with this? *^___^*
Maybe I am overlooking something here.

http://community.livejournal.com/sweetlytwisting/ is the community I am trying to adjust.

thanks in advance!!