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Discusses the layout design of this site, mainly CSS/styling issues.

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My user page is wider than my browser window in the new layout

There’s not much to be said about this: Figure 1: part of the page is shy and hiding behind the window’s frame. I believe in this day and age {CSS/web design/you tell me, I don’t actually do this ...
Jan's user avatar
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Chemistry's updated site theme is ready for testing!

As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. If ...
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Should chem.SE use Georgia font?

The default font of chem.SE web site currently is Georgia. Related CSS rule is: html, body { font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif } The ...
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Change “for scientists, academics, teachers and students”

The short description of Chemistry Stack Exchange reads Q&A for scientists, academics, teachers and students This is certainly not wrong and describes quite well that we are open for a broad ...
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Words are being covered by something

The top portion of the words is being covered by something. The 'FEATURED ON META' block is showing the same problem on Mathematics and Physics site and not on other sites. But the top bar which has '...
Apoorv Potnis's user avatar
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1 answer
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Changes in UI mess with design of the "lab bench"

I don't know since when this appears the way it does, but it must have been rather recently. Originally the box on which the lab equipment sits was stretching in the green background (compare here, it'...
Martin - マーチン's user avatar
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3 answers
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Enable syntax highlighting for code

Editorial comment As of 7th August 2017 there is quite strong support for the proposal. The developers have been asked via e-mail to take a closer look. Here is a block of Python, indented by 4 ...
pentavalentcarbon's user avatar
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Fine-tune footer CSS

While we are at the fine details of CSS, I'd say that sometimes there is some spacing missing above the footer. These are screenshots from the User > Activity page.
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Can we change the contrast of questions which have at least one of our favourite tags?

My question is just simple and that is only common sense for me, we can choose favourite tags and I think the goal is to rise the questions we can answer, at least, and the questions which can ...
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Quote box coloring, should it stand out more?

When I'm reading a post with quoted material, the quote doesn't seem to stand out to me, maybe it's something about it being yellow, but I cannot see it. Quoth the raven Nevermore The blue here ...
Melanie Shebel's user avatar
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The “Congratulations!” notice on the user profile page is not shown correctly

The “Congratulations!” notice on the user profile page is not shown correctly. In this case, the notice is about a new tag badge. A small part of it can be seen below the dark bar. I would have ...
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Some text is barely showing in answers in the tour due to MathJax formatting

Image 1 Image 2 I would suggest the last line is removed, or the max-height expanded to 190px. This would allow the gradient to take effect. Image 3 This cutoff ...
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Chat welcome message missing the “Okay, I'll keep it in mind” button, hence can't be dismissed

Seems we have some bad styling in chat.chemistry. Here is my original question: Chat welcome message missing the "Okay, I'll keep it in mind" button, hence can't be dismissed Other ...
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Automatically Centered Images

I like it when the images in posts are centered because for me the whole post looks a little bit more professional. Therefore I use currently the hskip command: ...
pH13 - Yet another Philipp's user avatar
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1 answer
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Design request - Can I please have the visited questions in a different color?

I thought I wouldn't like the new design, but what I can I say? I looove it! And I'm not gotta grow tired of it this soon. But...There's something that bothers me. I'm used to sleeping every night. (...
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