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Inside, Outside, Upside-down by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: AO3 CSS, css - Fandom, HTML - Fandom
23 Mar 2025
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I threw this together overnight (and have tweaked it some since then). Just applying a few little CSS party tricks that I've learned or developed along the way... 😉
My tricks aren't revealed in the narration, but since this is a How To series, you should be able to ferret them out by now — and if not, then take it as your homework challenge! ❤️
Use your 1337 haX0r Wiz zen skillz.
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Best viewed on a COMPUTER browser with a MOUSE, not a 'phone where some effects will be missed or simply not optimized (though there are a couple of surprises that appear on iPhone [not Android] rather than desktop browsers).
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CAUTION, beware of audio from invisible video; see notes.
⚠️Cf. notes in work skin for issues w.r.t. different approaches used in this work.
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- Part 8 of How to
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Among Us inspired chat skin for your AO3 and meme needs
Series
- Part 1 of #ao3_work_skins
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Skin for Putting Music Indicators in Your Fic by SpookyTesting (FierySprites)
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Apr 2022
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A work skin for inserting stylized music links into your fic, ala Super Smash Bros.’ music labels at the start of each match.
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A work skin tutorial of a Google Search Suggestions page in AO3.
See Chapter 1 for examples of the work skin with 4 different suggestions types (auto-complete suggestions, recent history, related to recent searches and trending searches), Chapter 2 for an explanation of the CSS work skin, Chapter 3 for the complete CSS code of the work skin, Chapter 4 for explanations of the HTML code and Chapter 5 for the complete HTML code (all 4 types of suggestions).
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This gives you the CSS and HTML necessary to present a somewhat passable but rather primitive and
staticDYNAMIC emulation of the “green rain” / “digital rain” of The Matrix. Webkit is included for lead symbols' outline, in order to sharpen the contrast.A dynamic one could be faked nicely with .gifs (AO3 can run Doom, after all), but you can't (by TOS) use Java on AO3, so an actually dynamic font seems a little out of reach for now. But that's OK: 27 Nov 2023 I found a workaround for a dynamic background.
Full code and illustrations are included.
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome! 🙂
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 9 of How to
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How to Make Invisible Text (That Can Be Highlighted) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
21 Oct 2015
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This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
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- Part 4 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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AO3 Work Skin for In-Universe Investigative/Mission Report With Redaction by wafflelate
Fandoms: No Fandom
11 May 2020
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This work provides the CSS and HTML necessary to make a fanfiction look like an investigative report or mission report, suitable for a variety of fandoms and purposes.
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This is a simple workskin that mimics a basic forum thread!
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Fonts, and colors, and work skins, oh my! by Charles_Rockafellor
Fandoms: css - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom
24 Jan 2021
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Explains:
● how to make a work skin;
● how to view fics' work skin rules;
● how to colorize text and circle words and highlight backgrounds (examples in head-note), and change and resize your fonts;
● how to turn all links blue-underscore automatically;
● the CSS code for diacritics to render properly, e.g.: “ầ” & “ồ” (with diacritics not superimposed), or “ị” (with underdot directly beneath, not kerned to the left), without breaking words such as “gầu” or “vịt” (using a monotype font for these letters would create gaps to each side of the ầ or the ị). Head-note has corrected examples;
● Site Skin addenda to block / shrink tags, and block authors / works;
● even a quick way (code included) to simply make a Site Skin so that you can read everything in your font of preference!Full code is included.
I read, appreciate, and reply to all of your comments — they're always welcome!
𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆! ❤️
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- Part 5 of How to
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This is a personal experiment with HTML. It is a very limited list with what I find useful.
Update: Somehow I find more and more stuff useful, so this list is not that limited (and not that private) anymore. I'll improve it with time and according to my needs. I just realized, this will never be "complete" and there is no final number of chapters.So far that's posted:
Part One: Basics
Part Two: Lines
Part Three: Footnotes and Links
Part Four: Columns and Skins
Part Five: Pictures
Part Six: Videos (and gifs)
Part Seven: Choose Your Own Adventure
Part Eight: Chapter Title
Part Nine: The Title, the Username, and Links
Part Ten: Boxes (still in progress)
Part Eleven: Newspaper Article
Part Twelve: Content Notes and Spoiler
Part Thirteen: Playground for Jinx (glitch text, color, table)
Part Fourteen: Text generator