Last modified: 2006-10-17 07:55:09 UTC
In the past few days, on (it seems) any Category page, in the section that lists the pages in a particular category, the background colour has gone white. The rest of the page is whatever colour is set for the skin. As far as I'm aware this only occurs using the Monobook skin. It was previously the same colour as the whole of the page. It occurs on both the English Wikipedia and Wikibooks and in both IE and Firefox. A similar thing happened to my user page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User;Harryboyles) with the tables I had used. I had used the syntax: background="none". When I changed it to style="background:none;" it returned to normal.
The background of all pages is white in default Monobook. This issue occurs because the background of most non-mainspace stuff has been changed in the English Wikipedia with custom styles at [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]], but tables' backgrounds have not been changed. (Table backgrounds are white rather than transparent by default so that borders and backgrounds of unfloated stuff, especially the rule under headings, don't run into floated tables.) Adding the following to enwiki's Monobook.css should fix it: table { background-color: #F8FCFF; } .ns-0 * table { background-color: white; }
Thanks!
