Quoting & Coding Question

[Patti Feinberg]

On CE&A board, Connie had quoted me. I wondered why my text went to two lines, but her quote only took up one.

Plus, I sent someone something in code...and both quotes and codes appear to be smaller.

I then clicked quote to Midnite's reply (same board), but there's nothing denoting the size.

Why does code and quote come out smaller?

Patti

[Mysterious Benefactor]

It all has to do with the way the text size and font are defined for the forum's individual features. For instance, the text that appears in posts is defined as follows:

/* By default (td, body..) use Tahoma in white. */
body, td
{
   color: #ffffff;
   font-size: small;
   font-family: Tahoma, arial, helvetica, serif;
}

Whereas, the quote and code boxes are defined like this:

/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
.quote
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #84add6;
   border: 1px solid #182d42;
   margin: 1px;
   padding: 1px;
   font-size: x-small;
}

/* A code block - maybe even PHP . */
.code
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #e7e7e7;
   border: 1px solid #000000;
   padding: 1px;
   font-family: "courier new", helvetica, "times new roman", serif;
   font-size: x-small;
   width: 99%;
   margin: 1px auto 1px auto;
   white-space: nowrap;
   overflow: auto;
}
(x-small stands for extra small.)

I then clicked quote to Midnite's reply (same board), but there's nothing denoting the size.

You can't see those definitions because they're stored in a part of the forum that isn't visible/accessible to you. 

[victoriawinters]

Ok MB, better knock off that CSS code before IE gets ahold of it and does something unspeakable to it.    (I could not resist.)

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I've changed the quoting definitions/style. Check out:

In an effort to make nested quotes more readable...