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December 17, 2003

Format questions

1. How do you fix the background picture so that it doesn't scroll (like on Consent of the Governed)?

2. How is everyone getting those nifty little boxes around quotes and such?

Need to catch up on my reading, instead of just skimming...

Posted by: Ted at 06:40 PM | Comments (145) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 For number 2, use the blockquote tag. That's:

Whatever you want blocked and quoted.

But without the spaces between the brackets.

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:02 PM

2 It stripped my example. Bah! Humbug. Try this:

[blockquote]Stuff being quoted.[/blockquote]

But use the regular "" instead of "[" and "]".

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:03 PM

3 What the hey? Can you not put a greater and less than symbol in a comment?

Posted by: Jim @ at December 17, 2003 07:04 PM

4 and then define 'blockquote' in the template or the stylesheet?

Posted by: Ted @ at December 17, 2003 07:33 PM

5 Nope--blockquote is an html tag.

Posted by: Victor @ at December 17, 2003 08:13 PM

6 Ted - CSS is the answer. Swipe someone's styles-site.css (So yes, you use blockquote and assign a stle to it in the stylesheet.)

Jim - MT strips out any HTML from comments that isn't specifically permitted, to stop people playing nasty tricks. To show a < use lt; instead.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 17, 2003 11:17 PM

7 Ted, the Bartender gave me the script for my CSS template. You can find his post about it here

Posted by: Susie @ at December 18, 2003 12:09 AM

8 Don't mind me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 18, 2003 11:27 PM

9 But what about the scrolling picture?

Posted by: Mookie @ at December 19, 2003 02:12 AM

10 The non-scrolling picture code for Consent of the Governed is:

body {
margin:20px 20px 20px 20px;
background:#FFFFFF;
background___:url(http://madfishwillies.mu.nu/images/BG-WeThePeople.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}

You can probably take the code out for the repeat line - no need for it here. It was in the sample code I modeled from so I just included it to be safe. I did define the background color above the picture url so that if they have pictures disabled they will see a colored background (well white background in this case).

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 06:11 AM

11 Pixy: I was browsing the MT support forum and ran across this post about inserting code into posts without it being parsed by MT. It has some macro coding, which I don't know anything about for MT -yet. I wonder if it would work in comments. Here is the link and the response by Brad Choate looked like the end of the discussion. Is this something for you to implement or is it something I can do locally?

Posted by: The Bartender @ at December 20, 2003 08:10 PM

12 It's already implemented.

That's how the smilies work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa @ at December 21, 2003 01:36 AM

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