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Help:Customizing Monobook

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This page concerns the Monobook skin, which is no longer actively supported. The current recent Wikia skin is Monaco.
  • You can find out more about the Wikia skins on Help:Skins.

This page lists some notes regarding customizing the Monobook skin. See also Help:Examples of customized Monobook skins.

Sidebar

The default sidebar in the "Monobook" skin is defined in MediaWiki:Sidebar and can be configured by sysops:

Link text Description Associated MediaWiki page(s)
Main Page The home page of the wiki. Mainpage
Community Portal Links to community pages Portal, Portal-url
Current events News in the area your wiki is about Currentevents
Recent changes Recent edits on this wiki Recentchanges
Random page Go to a random wiki page (main namespace only) Randompage
Help A list of help pages Help, Helppage

Monobook customizations

Sample CSS code specific to Monobook.

/* suppress the person icon by your username */
li#pt-userpage { background: none }


/* make the background behind the content area and the tabs a light grey */
#content, #content table
#p-cactions ul li :link { background: #f5f5f5; }


/* change background of unselected tabs */
#p-cactions ul li a { background: #C7FDC7; }

/* change background of selected tabs */
#p-cactions ul li.selected a { background: white; }

/* change border color of selected tabs */
#p-cactions li.selected { border-color: #aaaaaa; }

/* style the search box and the buttons below it */
input.searchButton {
    background-color: #efefef !important;
    border: 1px outset !important;  
}
#searchInput { border: 1px inset !important; }

/* don't use any logo */
#p-logo { display: none; }
#column-one { padding-top: 2.4em; }