Last modified: 2012-07-22 00:45:57 UTC
In the 1.19.1 release, the main.css for the Monobook skin is missing lines that are important to change colors. For example, the 1.16 release had the lines h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { color: #A67C52; background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding-top: .5em; padding-bottom: .17em; border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; } which allow users to set heading colors for a color changed version of Monobook, or to override colors in the MediaWiki:Monobook.css page. These lines are not included in the main.css of the 1.19.1 release, which makes it impossible to change heading colors by modifiying a copy of the main.css. I was only able to solve this for my own site by going through the backup that still had the 1.16 main.css. I suggest that all main.css files should include all neccessary lines to change color, size, and fonts of all elements of the skin.
What extension is this? And why is it so difficult for you to just add the relevant lines?
Loading of resources in MediaWiki is done through the concept of modules. A module can contain more than 1 file. For example the "skins.monobook" module contains the following files: > > 'styles' => array( > 'common/commonElements.css' => array( 'media' => 'screen' ), > 'common/commonContent.css' => array( 'media' => 'screen' ), > 'common/commonInterface.css' => array( 'media' => 'screen' ), > 'monobook/main.css' => array( 'media' => 'screen' ), > ), Please do not link to refer to internal mediawiki files directly. Instead load the module as a whole by its canonical name ("skins.monobook" in this case). Files can be renamed or moved between versions of MediaWiki, but the module name will not. To learn how to load a module, see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader#Loading_module Also, don't copy or modify internal files as a whole. If you copy all of main.css to your wiki's MediaWiki:Monobook.css page you cause all css to be loaded twice. This is both inefficient and causes the styles to be outdated. And when you upgrade to the next version you might end up with a broken-looking wiki because you still have old styles - even styles you didn't want to change - and then a result have effectively changed. Instead keep your MediaWiki:Monobook.css clean with only styles you intent to override from the default styles. Don't worry about where the files are in MediaWiki core, the software takes care of that. The css wasn't removed in 1.19.1, they were just renamed and moved somewhere else. So if you want to override the color of headings, adding the following to MediaWiki:Monobook.css will work just fine: > h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { > color: green; > } Marking this bug as 'invalid', because it is not a bug in the software. If you need further assistance feel just leave a comment below and we'll answer :)
