I don't have time for that

I am trying to eliminate floats!!

oh no rip

I thought there might be a base layout that arranges things the way I wanted

jankily moving things around via margins is my least favorite way to do things, it breaks so easily

do transforms with a lot of calcs involved have the same problem?

ugh margins

assemble: depends on what the calcs are being used on. ideally for movement animations you should be using transform: translate(), or left: right: top: bottom: is preferable to margin

my feeling is that if like, a single misplaced nbsp will break your layout, this is not the best way to code your layout

is this a new thing dw did

that's kinda what i mean like is there a way to translate whatever u want with transform instead

oh sorry, i was thinking in terms of animating, I misunderstood.

nowadays you'd want to use flex or css grid to create layout, using transforms to create the layout isn't really done. But you can use calc() fine with flex or cssgrid

and no I just want to put the username under the icon, which I will probably use relative positioning to do

I would rather just have a base style that grouped things in the way I want though!!

oh ok ignore me then that's not a particularly useful utilization of transform

you know

you could always make a base style

s2's kind of a pain in the ass tho

... CAN WE make base styles?

yeah

i mean it'd be a ton of effort... but yes i don't see why not, since we can import them from lj or ij

I do a lot of minor tweaks via custom layers

I used to add the viewport meta tag that way b/c dw… didn't have it built in (but it does now I believe)

but yeah i'm ngl i kinda like the base layout from IJ

or idk whatever the one is that tess uses

There's stuff I like about it but importing from another site is also like… far more work than I'd like

it's better than flexible squares, though

flexible squares is like, windows.... i'm only using it cuz i started out with flexible squares and i'm too lazy to learn anything else

is anyone making base layers though, i wonder if anyone's taking requests or if i ever did make one if it could get published to dw

you could, there are guidelines

aw, boo. i'll put it on the list of things i'll never get around to

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that's the community for official submissions

and these are the guidelines

you need to use ems, basically

that's not bad

that's what I wanted to do, and I'm annoyed I had to use positioning to do it!!

did dreamwidth change the cuttag code with the last codepush?

update: sure did, now it's just a normal link without any class applied

so you have to do .cuttag + b { } to select it

i need to make my own journal layouts now :|a

I am much muuuuch too lazy to do my own base style so I just make the regular ones less ugly (don't worry, I use em/%)

it's a thankless job!!

we all know the things that make me angry: tables and the font tag

flex lets you do what you used to have to use tables for

wrong

me when any kind of muselist code still uses tables:

u should've used floats for that previously

I WILL CONVERT YOUR CODE TO FLEXBOXES FOR FREE, JUST STOP USING TABLES

like 90% of the games on dw still have inbox/cr meme &c code that still uses tables

not if you wanted, y'know, an actual table

if you want an actual table table is fine

after css became a thing it was possible to make them non-ugly, even

anyway I routinely fix up code like that from my games and always think about offering it to the mods but then don't want to be the person who insists on html semantics

IN GENERAL though my hot take is that if you have a very pretty game form that is also very hard to edit because no one can find where they're supposed to put their username in between all the inline css

you have a very poorly designed form

and this problem is only ever made worse with tables

it's so easy to break a table and most people don't know how tables work because tables are bad

i don't think that's a hot take, if i have trouble finding where to input stuff your form is 2 complicated

like yes, it looks pretty, buuuuut also 50% of your players are gonna have "edited" on the bottom of their comment

this plurk is a mood

anyway who wants to see my current dw project/frustration

my muse list uses divs. i love it...

so much easier than tables

here is my ongoing progress, (obviously much is still broken)

can't even properly link a fake site lol