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I agree, somebody should. Also, it looks totally stupid in LQT.

Polar Bear in the Jungle Peter Tosh > Bob Marley20:02, 13 February 2013

It looks broken in LQT. Or is the [[User:Inquisitor Ehrenstein| part supposed to be visible?

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.20:41, 13 February 2013

No, the ector</span>]] has been chopped off the end, ruining the link. He's lucky that it doesn't look even worse, really.

Peter mqzp20:51, 13 February 2013

@Peter, that makes sense. Is there a tighter character limit on signatures in LQT than in normal preferences?

That would appear to be the case, though I don't know for sure.

Peter mqzp20:59, 13 February 2013
 
 

My guess is that for whatever reason LQT doesn't like the <span> being used within a link. The same font formatting could be used without it being a span & it would probably work OK (like mine or yours does).

It's a simple character cutoff in the code. If he removes all the extra spaces in his style, and reduces the font size of the text and/or the smiley below 10, he might manage to get it to work.

Peter mqzp20:58, 13 February 2013

Couldn't they avoid the character cutoff in the first place by setting their signature to transclude, rather than substitute, in their signature? It's what Blue and I do.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.21:03, 13 February 2013

Manually removing the "subst" from the sig part below is also an option, as is not using LQT in the first place.

Peter mqzp21:06, 13 February 2013

Copy this to your CSS page:

.sashasig {
     background: #D8D8D8; 
     padding: 2px; 
     color: #151515; 
     font-size: 12px; 
     border: 1px solid #1F1F1F;
}
ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector21:16, 13 February 2013

If you could add a class for the eyes part of the sig too that would be most appreciated.

Peter mqzp21:18, 13 February 2013
 

Here's an idea, Inquisitor: you change your CSS page to prettify your own sig, just so you can see it. Don't force others to change theirs just to accommodate your eyesore of a sig.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.21:41, 13 February 2013

That's what he did.

Peter mqzp21:44, 13 February 2013

Ah. Sorry. Inquisitor had been pretty insistent about his sig, so I figured he was continuing to be as minimally accommodating as possible.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.21:48, 13 February 2013

I'm pretty sure it's a plain link the way it was before.

ఠ_ఠ Inquisitor Sasha Ehrenstein des Sturmkrieg Sector23:15, 13 February 2013