Jack's Various Stories

Jack's Various Stories
By: jackVS
Published on 14 Jul 2022 15:30

What this is

A bunch of miscellaneous CSS 'improvements' that I, Croquembouche, use on a bunch of pages because I think it makes them easier to deal with.

The changes this component makes are bunch of really trivial modifications to ease the writing experience and to make documenting components/themes a bit easier (which I do a lot). It doesn't change anything about the page visually for the reader — the changes are for the writer.

I wouldn't expect translations of articles that use this component to also use this component, unless the translator likes it and would want to use it anyway.

This component probably won't conflict with other components or themes, and even if it does, it probably won't matter too much.

Usage

On any wiki:

[[include :scp-wiki:component:croqstyle]]

This component is designed to be used on other components. When using on another component, be sure to add this inside the component's [[iftags]] block, so that users of your component are not forced into also using Croqstyle.

Related components

Other personal styling components (which change just a couple things):

• RSO Component — Rounderhouse

Personal styling themes (which are visual overhauls):

• Magnus Web Format — DrMagnus
• Flopstyle CSS — Lt Flops
• Blankstyle CSS — HarryBlank
• Placestyle CSS — Placeholder McD
• Jakstyle — JakdragonX

CSS changes

Reasonably-sized footnotes

Stops footnotes from being a million miles wide, so that you can actually read them.

.hovertip { max-width: 400px; }

Monospace edit/code

Makes the edit textbox monospace, and also changes all monospace text to Fira Code, the obviously superior monospace font.

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Code:wght@400;700&display=swap');
 
:root { --mono-font: "Fira Code", Cousine, monospace; }
#edit-page-textarea, .code pre, .code p, .code, tt, .page-source { font-family: var(--mono-font); }
.code pre * { white-space: pre; }
.code *, .pre * { font-feature-settings: unset; }

Teletype backgrounds

Adds a light grey background to <tt> elements ({{text}}), so code snippets stand out more.

tt {
  background-color: var(--swatch-something-bhl-idk-will-fix-later, #f4f4f4);
  font-size: 85%;
  padding: 0.2em 0.4em;
  margin: 0;
  border-radius: 6px;
}

No more bigfaces

Stops big pictures from appearing when you hover over someone's avatar image, because they're stupid and really annoying and you can just click on them if you want to see the big version.

.avatar-hover { display: none !important; }

Breaky breaky

Any text inside a div with class nobreak has line-wrapping happen between every letter.

.nobreak { word-break: break-all; }

Code colours

Add my terminal's code colours as variables. Maybe I'll change this to a more common terminal theme like Monokai or something at some point, but for now it's just my personal theme, which is derived from Tomorrow Night Eighties.

Also, adding the .terminal class to a fake code block as [[div class="code terminal"]] gives it a sort of pseudo-terminal look with a dark background. Doesn't work with [[code]], because Wikidot inserts a bunch of syntax highlighting that you can't change yourself without a bunch of CSS. Use it for non-[[code]] code snippets only.

Quick tool to colourise a 'standard' Wikidot component usage example with the above vars: link

:root {
  --c-bg: #393939;
  --c-syntax: #e0e0e0;
  --c-comment: #999999;
  --c-error: #f2777a;
  --c-value: #f99157;
  --c-symbol: #ffcc66;
  --c-string: #99cc99;
  --c-operator: #66cccc;
  --c-builtin: #70a7df;
  --c-keyword: #cc99cc;
}
 
.terminal, .terminal > .code {
  color: var(--c-syntax);
  background: var(--c-bg);
  border: 0.4rem solid var(--c-comment);
  border-radius: 1rem;
}

Debug mode

Draw lines around anything inside .debug-mode. The colour of the lines is red but defers to CSS variable --debug-colour.

You can also add div.debug-info.over and div.debug-info.under inside an element to annotate the debug boxes — though you'll need to make sure to leave enough vertical space that the annotation doesn't overlap the thing above or below it.

…like this!

.debug-mode, .debug-mode *, .debug-mode *::before, .debug-mode *::after {
  outline: 1px solid var(--debug-colour, red);
  position: relative;
}
.debug-info {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  transform: translateX(-50%);
  font-family: 'Fira Code', monospace;
  font-size: 1rem;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.debug-info.over { top: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info.under { bottom: -2.5rem; }
.debug-info p { margin: 0; }

▷ Show Code ◁

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght@600;700&display=swap);
 
/* Centered Header Sigma
 * [2021 Wikidot Component]
 * By Lt Flops (CC BY-SA 3.0)
 * Forked from:
   * Penumbra Theme by EstrellaYoshte
 * Also based on:
   * Centered Header BHL by Woedenaz
**/
 
/* ---- VARS ---- */
 :root{
     --titleColor: hsl(0, 0%, 95%);
     --subtitleColor: hsl(60, 62%, 85%);
     --lgurl: url(https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/component:pride-highlighter/lgbtqp_logo.svg);
}
 
/* ---- SITE BANNER ---- */
 #header,
 div#header{
     background-image: none;
}
 
 #header::before{
     position: absolute;
     width: 100%;
     height: 100%;
     content: "";
 
     background-image: var(--lgurl);
     background-position: center top;
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     background-size: auto 9em;
     opacity: .33;
}
 
 #header h1,
 #header h2{
     float: none;
     margin-left: 0;
 
     text-align: center;
}
 
 #header h1 span,
 #header h2 span{
   /* Hide the Existing Text */
     display: none;
}
 
 #header h1 a::before,
 #header h2::before{
   /* Style the New Text */
     font-family: "Montserrat", "Arial", sans-serif;
     text-shadow: none;
}
 
 #header h1 a::before{
     position: relative;
     bottom: .15em;
 
     color: var(--titleColor);
 
     font-size: 115%;
     font-weight: 700;
}
 
 #header h2::before{
     position: relative;
     top: .1em;
 
     color: var(--subtitleColor);
 
     font-size: 130%;
     font-weight: 600;
}
 
 #header h1 a::before{
   /* Set the New Text's Content From Variable */
     content: var(--header-title, "SCP FOUNDATION");
}
 
 #header h2::before{
     content: var(--header-subtitle, "SECURE - CONTAIN - PROTECT");
}
 
/* ---- SEARCH ---- */
 #search-top-box{
     top: 1em;
     right: 0;
}
 
 #search-top-box-form input.button{
     margin-right: 0;
}
 
 #search-top-box-input,
 #search-top-box-input:hover,
 #search-top-box-input:focus,
 #search-top-box-form input[type=submit],
 #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:hover,
 #search-top-box-form input[type=submit]:focus{
     border-radius: 0;
     box-shadow: none;
 
     font-size: 100%;
}
 
/* ---- TOP BAR ---- */
 #top-bar{
     right: 0;
     display: flex;
     justify-content: center;
}
 
 #top-bar ul li ul{
     border-bottom: 1px solid hsl(0, 0%, 40%);
     box-shadow: none;
}
 
/* ---- LOGIN ---- */
 #login-status{
     top: 1.1em;
     right: initial;
 
     color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%);
}
 
 #account-topbutton{
     border-color: hsl(0, 0%, 87%);
 
     font-size: 100%;
}
 
/* ---- PAGE TITLE ---- */
 .meta-title,
 #page-title{
     text-align: center;
}
 
/* ---- BREADCRUMBS ---- */
 .pseudocrumbs,
 #breadcrumbs{
     text-align: center;
}
 
/* ---- MOBILE DISPLAY ---- */
 @media (max-width: 767px){
     #search-top-box{
          top: 1.85em;
          width: unset;
    }
 
     .mobile-top-bar{
          position: relative;
          left: 0;
          display: flex;
          justify-content: center;
    }
 
     #login-status{
          top: 0;
          right: 0;
    }
 
     #header .printuser{
          font-size: 0;
    }
 
     #header .printuser img.small{
          margin: 0;
 
          transform: translate(6px, 4px);
    }
 
     #my-account{
          display: none;
    }
 
     #account-topbutton{
          margin-left: 2px;
    }
}

hey, Mr. Jack
is that the trick of your disguise?
hey, Mr. Jack
is that the cause of your demise?

- System of a Down

---

Hi. I'm Jack. You might have heard of me.

…What? No, not that one. I'm the other Jack. … No, not that one either. Third time's the charm? … No, not … he doesn't even spell it with a "C." Whatever. Let's start over.

_{A portrait of the author, technically.}

Hi. I'm jackVS. You probably haven't heard of me.

I'm a Z-list SCP author who's never written anything outside of this website. I use whatever pronouns you've got lying around and I don't pronounce the extra letters in my username, but you can say "versus" if you want. I'd change it if I could, but apparently I had no concept of consequences years ago and burned all my username changes.

I like horror (especially social and body horror), sci-fi, new-weird, shortform, overcomplicated sentence construction, vibes-based nonsense, silly premises played entirely straight, and shoving politics and gay people into SCP. I like to think of myself as a pretty chill person, although I am one of those scary queer antifas you keep hearing about.

Feel free to DM me for basically any reason unless you're a creep or something; I have entirely too much free time and I'm down to read anything you send me. Don't let the three four (??) karma bars mislead you, I'm not anybody.

Nice to meet you! Here's everything I've ever written.

---

SCP Articles

• SCP-5768 - No One Dies at Disney

While we have the utmost trust in our employees, maintenance of the no-casualty record has been deemed unsustainable by Disneyland Resort® management.

• SCP-6178 - Cognitojacking

[COGNITOHAZARD EXPUNGED] in the coming days, and the market soars ten million percent.

• SCP-6509 - Bullet Time

Requests for firearm testing have been preemptively denied.

Tales & GoI Formats

I'm working on it.

Other Pages

• Jack's Various Stories

Are we sick of the "author page links to author page and the author makes a joke about Inception" bit yet?

---

And that's all I wrote.¹

Footnotes

1. Except for this line, which I stole from a cooler article.

‡ Licensing / Citation

Cite this page as:

"Jack's Various Stories" by jackVS, from the SCP Wiki. Source: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jackvs. Licensed under CC-BY-SA.

For more information, see Licensing Guide.
Licensing Disclosures

Line at the end is inspired by SCP-3999 by LordStonefish.

Filename: jackdark.jpg
Author: jackVS
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Source Link: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jackvs

For more information about on-wiki content, visit the Licensing Master List.