Quotes in wiki pages.

[Zorblag]

Troll has been been thinking of including some quotes on Troll's wiki page and would like to emulate the style of quoting used in the forums (including to a minor extent the ability to make quote pyramids.) The tool that came closest seems to be the blockquote but no puts the box around the quote Troll would like to have and no seems to have a convenient way to get the

Zorblag wrote:

type of format at the top of a quote. Troll wonders if any with more experience with working with wiki pages might have any suggestions? Basically, Troll would like to be able to put something that looks like:

This be a quote.

Troll just quoted Troll's own quote.

on a page but no has been able to figure out how that might be accomplished. It no would have to be in exactly that format but the closer Troll could get the happier Troll would be.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[My Milked Eek]

You can include inline css in a wiki page. To have your page display a quote box such as the one in the Sepia Style, you'd want to use:

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'''Zorblag wrote:'''<br />
<div style="border: #c2b49c 1px solid; background: #e0dbc8; padding: 5px;">
textextextext
</div>

This emulates the boards style somewhat, but not entirely. To set a specified width: add "width: xxx" after the "padding: 5px". Replace xxx with your width of choice, eg 15% or 150px.

For pyramids:

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'''Zorblag wrote:'''<br />
<div style="border: #c2b49c 1px solid; background: #e0dbc8; padding: 5px;">
'''Zorblag wrote:'''<br />
<div style="border: #c2b49c 1px solid; background: #e0dbc8; padding: 5px;">
textextextext
</div>
textextextext
</div>

[Zorblag]

That should do nicely; Troll modified it some to get the results Troll wanted but that template was just what Troll was looking for. Troll no be so knowledgeable about these things and Troll thanks much for the help!

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Mr. Flay]

I can also (probably) modify the wiki's css so that blockquotes look more similar to the forums. Do you want something like what MME used, or yours? I don't have a lot of time to stress-test code but I can drop something in if it already looks good...

[Zorblag]

Mr. Flay, if you were to implement something to make it easier to use Troll would love something that looked like what Troll has on Troll's wiki with a bit more indentation like we have with quotes here (which Troll thinks Troll could have figured out but was too lazy to.) The main thing Troll changed from My Milked Eek was just the colors of the background in the boxes and the border.

Troll no knows if others care about this at all though so it be entirely possible that it no be worth the effort as there be a working solution now.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[MafiaSSK]

I would prefer it if they looked like the forum quotes...

[Mr. Flay]

First attempts didn't take for some reason. I don't know if it's a permissions or configuration issue or what, but very few of my recent CSS changes seem to be having any good effect on the wiki. I'll take another stab at it after Flayming Man, unlikely to get to it before (anybody else with Wiki Administrator rights is of course welcome to do something with it in the interim).