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[God]

I think I could get them to alternate when nested, but it would be painful. I did it using CSS, to begin with.

[Pureghetto]

Forget that. We'd just ruin it by nest qq with q and qqq and q^4 tags.

[Loony BoB]

Are the new quote tags supposed to be black? Because on my screen, they're black. And it's horrible to look at. God-awful, even. And alternating them is also a stupid idea. We need to decide - one or the other. No "oh, a bit of this and a bit of that" - be consistent.

[Pureghetto]

I'm serious here: they all suck. Bring back the old ones and erase everybody's memory. :aimmad: :aimmad:

[Leeza]

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

Are the new quote tags supposed to be black? Because on my screen, they're black. And it's horrible to look at. God-awful, even. And alternating them is also a stupid idea. We need to decide - one or the other. No "oh, a bit of this and a bit of that" - be consistent.

I think you need a new screen for your work computer because it seems to have it's own colours apart from all the others.

I agree that we should be consistent and I think these look pretty good.

[The Man]

You people need to turn up your contrast.

Having them alternate inside the quote boxes would be nice too, but I guess if it's a huge problem you could just use a different kind of border for the quote boxes, like:

Originally posted by Bashkar

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Also, the way you guys are defining the quote boxes seems a bit unsound, you could just use:

.alt1 .quote {border: #000000 1px solid; padding: 4px; background: #012033; font: 13px "Verdana", "Arial", sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF;}
.alt2 .quote {border: #000000 1px solid; padding: 4px; background: #002942; font: 13px "Verdana", "Arial", sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF;}
.prequote {padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 4px; font: 11px "Tahoma", "Arial", sans-serif; color: #FFFFFF;}

Then just use as the quote tag:

<blockquote><div class="quote">{param}</div></blockquote>

And for the custom quote tag:

<blockquote><div class="prequote">Originally posted by {option}</div><div class="quote">{param}</div></blockquote>

Putting a "Quote:" message before people's quotes seems to me unnecessary and a waste of space. It's obvious that it's a quote, why else is it blocked out like that? xD

Also, having quotes with 12px text when the rest of the post is 13px text looks bad to me. If you really want it to look different from everything else, use something like 11px Tahoma or something.

[Leeza]

I like the black line around the box better than the blue line. Less messy.

[The Man]

Yeah, I think certain wankers just need to turn up their freaking brightness. The blue line does make it more obvious that it's a quote though, so whatever people think.

Edit: Actually, if they use the blue line they should probably use it everywhere else on the forum as well, just for continuity. I wouldn't mind EoFF with a more obvious border, come to think of it - it seems a bit low of a contrast between one text box and the next.