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and of course he ought really prefix his sig text with an hr tag in any case.

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Re^5: signature background color or outline
by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 01, 2010 at 07:37 UTC
    But why should I? There's a perlmonks template for signature, which includes two tags that makes it easy to write CSS for it.

    With that I consider my responsibility done in marking my signature as such, and the default CSS should just do something with it.

    If the general consensus is that there should be horizontal line before the signature, one can always say 

    .pmsig { border-top: 3px solid gray }

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    or something along these lines. And yes, IMHO that should be in the default CSS.

    That's what proper HTML markup and associated CSS is for: give the designer a choice to make the pages look as she wants them to. I'm not a designer, so I will gladly cede this decision to somebody with more aesthetic perception.

    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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      Signatures are now delineated from the main post by a thin, CSS generated line. The other themes may change that. If a <HR> element is the first element in a signature, that HR gets hidden via CSS. That way, old signatures look mostly the same as new signatures, even if they already used a <HR> to delineate themselves from the content.

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      Without verifying, I suspect there are many tags added to PM posts that are not addressed by the default CSS. But I think there is another issue in play:

      How much do we want to incentivize Anonymous Monk (vs. registered users)?

      Personally, I think it is worthwhile to gently discourage Anonymous Monk, or, rather, encourage him to register.

      HTH,

      planetscape
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        It's not only about encouraging to register (or not), but also how we present ourselves to the outside world.

        And I think a good design (which lets you distinguish posting and signature) would speak for us, not against us.

        Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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        It would take more than the inability to distinguish the post from the signature to force me to have anything to do with CSS. Make the default green and purple and I might, otherwise I will not bother. And with me quite a few others.

        Jenda
        Enoch was right!
        Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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        So to have readable nodes , you not only have to sign up, but you have to learn about CSS also? Brilliant!
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