Help:User style

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Any logged in user on ShoutWiki can customize the design of any ShoutWiki site through their personal stylesheet subpages. This allows you to view your own choice of fonts, colours, positions of links in the margins, and many other things.

To customize how site looks for you, create and edit User:user_name/style.css, where user_name is your user name, and style is the site skin set in your preferences. The skin name is usually in lowercase, though there are some exceptions to this rule, but it will never contain spaces. For example, your personal stylesheet for Cologne Blue skin would be at Special:MyPage/cologneblue.css. You can also use Special:MyPage/style.css to reach the same page.

By default, all users may choose any style from the following:

  • Monobook
  • Cologne Blue
  • Modern

The following skins are only available to premium wikis:

  • BlueCloud
  • Hope
  • Magazine
  • Monaco
  • Nimbus
  • phpBB
  • Truglass

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is used to style and format content on ShoutWiki in a number of ways — however, the actual syntax of CSS is beyond the scope of this document. For most people, however, copying and pasting code is sufficient enough to render the required experience.

Once you have edited your stylesheet, you need to reload it to your browser. On most browsers, press Ctrl+Shift+R, or hold down the Alt key and press the Refresh button.

  • Firefox: hold down the Shift key while clicking Reload; alternatively press Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl-Shift-R.
  • Chrome: press Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5
  • Internet Explorer: hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button, or press Ctrl+F5.
  • Opera users have to clear their caches through Tools→Preferences
  • Konqueror and Safari users can just click the Reload button.

See also

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