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Here is the CSS/HTML for a simple sports scoreboard to use in your AO3 works.
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Popup tooltips that work well on both desktop (hover) and mobile (tap open and close). Constrained width, so best for short tooltips or translations for a couple words at the most.
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- Part 1 of Simbeline's Work Skins
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Standard formatting of a screenplay spec script scaled to suit the size of your viewing window
If anyone wants a realistic movie script format, I've put it in the second chapter. Feel free to just copy and paste it into your own work skin -
How to Override the Archive's Automated Chapter Headers by C Ryan Smith (AiedailEclipsed)
Fandoms: No Fandom
25 Nov 2018
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to override the Archive's automated chapter heading system and define your own (eg remove "Chapter 1: Chapter Title" and insert "Act 1, Verse 1" instead).
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How To Change Text on AO3 When the Cursor is Hovering Over It (Or Clicked on Mobile) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
22 May 2017
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This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.
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- Part 15 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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CSS in Testing by InfinitysWraith
Fandoms: Ao3 Skins - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom, css - Fandom
18 Apr 2022
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This is a flaming dumpster filled with CSS and HTML experiments. It's not instructional, but I post the code and my own explanations for both our sakes. Feel free to steal the code or ask me questions- I don't know what I'm doing. :)
(Pics are mine though)
Chapter 5 is probably what you're looking for ;)
I'm not going to say I take requests, but I'm always looking for inspiration.
It seems I've broken Ao3 yet again. I can no longer add more code to my work skin so we're moving on to part two!
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- Part 1 of CSS in Testing
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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
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.
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- Part 13 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Decorations for Fic (HTML/CSS): Fan Art, Dividers, Embedded Songs, and More by Jnsn
Fandoms: No Fandom, Archive of Our Own
24 Jul 2021
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NON-FICTION. This work shows some examples of use of HTML/CSS to decorate a fic with art and other things. The second chapter provides the HTML for each example.
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A work skin that imitates the style of Twitch.tv's chat box. (Kinda.)
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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)
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-minecraft booksSeries
- Part 1 of AO3 workskins
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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How to set up a bookmarklet that applies a saved set of filters to any works or bookmarks listing page on AO3
(Bookmarklets are a bit fiddly on mobile, but very much doable—and functional. Since I've done all the coding already, you can just follow the instructions without worrying about that. ;D)
GitHub version (more technical) || Tumblr version (with screenshots for Chrome on Android)
Bookmarked by emiwrimo
01 Dec 2023
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this has saved my ao3 experience, oh my god. farewell, notps! farewell, dead dove: do not eats! this filter hath spoketh, begone with thee.
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The Nice and Accurate Guide to Footnotes by Vigs for fersh
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Aug 2019
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If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes.
But html can be confusing. What can you do?
Read this guide to find out!
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How to Mimic Letters, Fliers, and Stationery Without Using Images by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Jul 2017
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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A work skin template of a Baidu (Chinese search engine) Search Suggestions or History page in AO3.
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For everyone who wants to use a language in their fic, and provide a translation, making it friendly for mobile and desktop, and something that's fairly easy without needing every possible translation included in the workskin itself, here you go.
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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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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