User:Quadibloc

In response to an expression of interest by User:Mnenyver, after first gaining some familiarity with the wiki through conventional edits, and constructing a template for Has-Mad-Ns, which I have not uploaded yet (some wording on it would depend on what, if anything, the Mad: namespace is to be used for; if I upload it, it will make things appear that what it says is the official purpose of it)...

I have finally managed to develop some templates for the purpose of providing a gaslamp fantasy or (pardon the expression) steampunk feel to the site. They can be used as follows:

some text

produces the following:

some text

and

some text

produces the following:

some text

the difference being (as should be visible unless your browser window is very narrow) that if you start with the Decorative Banner version, the box expands to the full available width, rather than being only as wide as the text within forces it to be.

Because background images are not available, the side borders are built from empty table cells with background colors. This limits how elaborate it is reasonable to make the sides, and it has also prevented certain alternate structures for the boxes due to limitations of browsers in handling empty table cells.

Using &amp;nbsp; to fill the cell, a recommended strategy, did not work out well. And uploading a 1px by 1px image was a strategy I rejected because that might be misinterpreted as an attempt to get around security, although 4px by 4px images of the different solid colors might be an option in some cases.

So far, the Box 2 style is the only one I have that is reasonably professional in appearance, but I am working on adding a few other choices.