Useful CSS code
This is a collection of some of the useful workskins I've come across while scrolling through AO3.
(Open, Moderated)
Recent works
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Mimicking Minecraft for fics- Some Minecraft Work Skins by Ultraviollett
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Minecraft (Video Game), Hermitcraft SMP, Dream SMP, Empires SMP
20 Apr 2024
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Some CSS for workskins involving minecraft!
Current chapters:
-Minecraft chat text, including "[username] joined/left game" and "[username] whispers to you"
-Minecraft buttons (respawn/ quit to title)
-End poem text
-minecraft booksSeries
- Part 1 of AO3 workskins
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Mystery Work
Part of jail time!
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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Mimicking Twitch Chat for Fics- Some Twitch Chat Workskins by Ultraviollett
Fandoms: Video Blogging RPF, Fandom - Fandom, Real Person Fiction
04 Jul 2022
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A CSS workskin to mimic twitch chat. I couldn't find any so I decided to create one myself!
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- Part 2 of AO3 workskins
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Got a fic where characters message each other?
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- Part 3 of Azdaema's AO3 Messaging Skins
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Got a fic where characters message each other?
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- Part 4 of Azdaema's AO3 Messaging Skins
Recent bookmarks
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A little something to help people with coding for their works, notes, and summaries. No work skins are needed for any of these.
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Twitter work skin.
- Tweets, quote-tweets, images, polls...;
- DM's, text, emojis, images, voice messages, groupchats...;
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How to Make Honkai: Star Rail Chat Messages by html_hell (jihnari)
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game), No Fandom
13 Jan 2025
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This is a tutorial on how to mimic HSR chat messages on AO3.
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Toggle for all caps, all lowercase, and capitalization by DoctorDizzyspinner
Fandoms: No Fandom, Ao3 meta - Fandom
22 Mar 2025
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It's not a good idea to write in all caps or all lowercase. See: Use CSS Text Transform for Better Accessibility and text-transform - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN.
This provides free to use CSS for both
text-transformand a toggle for turning these styles on and off so that the reader does not have to turn off the entire workskin if they do not want to see all caps or all lowercase words.Series
- Part 3 of My Code Snippets
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials