FireBrick Custom CSS: Difference between revisions

At the time of writing, the shipping CSS in the Firebrick FB2500 was v1.45.001 Ximenes, and the standard <code>font-size:</code> value in use was keyword <code>small</code>.

To ''increase'' the text size, this example would require a rewrite and lots of testing trial and error. Unfortunately changing text sizes can have a lot of nasty knock-on effects on layout, which cascade out of control in ways that are hard to predict. Hacks such as the above are likely to fall apart if the base CSS changes or if other aspects of the design cause the layout to change. This is in part because this is an override on parts of the base CSS, so effectively a patch, and so has intimate dependencies on its precise content. Also there are dependencies between the (X)HTML and the CSS, so changes to the pages’ content or structure can possibly cause problems.

This simple example has certain defects: The vertical layout of the text within the footer is slightly off. The layout of the ‘Graphs’ page is quite a mess, so further work is needed.

Note that there is no space after the dot in <code>div.main</code> etc. This is essential; adding white space at this point would alter the meaning - see [https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/selector.html CSS selectors].