Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151218124612/@comment-3547390-20151219134446

Yeah, I don't exactly see the benefit of the new infoboxes. If we are losing color and not gaining anything, what is the benefit of changing them now? I suggest that we keep the old infoboxes if it is possible, if it becomes enforced I guess we will need to update. Hopefully by the time such changes become necessary there will be more benefit to the new infoboxes and perhaps the ability to change colors.

I have actually attempted to change colors based on the info on this page - http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:PortableInfoboxes. From there, they suggest to go to a page on Infobox CSS, which talks about two different methods using either a regular theme or a theme location. As far as I can figure, theme is basically applied to all pages while theme location is called upon in individual pages. If we could figure out the latter, we could create one universal template and just change the coloration to achieve what we did before. Still, as both are basically the same concept except that I don't need to define anything on the actual page with the former, I attempted just to make changes using the examples on that page. Originally creating my own class and failing, I have tried copy-pasting what the Wikia gives as an example. Even that doesn't seem to do anything. The code I copied should make the white text we see on the page red, yet even after refreshing that page with a new publish I am not able to see any changes.

It doesn't exactly help that we have so little to go by. The examples don't have CSS themes at all, the page on it gives us variables instead of a nice clear example, and I am not even entirely sure where the CSS is supposed to go on the page. I assume inside the infobox tag, outside of it just wouldn't make sense, similar to a CSS theme inside a body tag. Still, whatever I am doing is apparently wrong unless Wikia doesn't support this feature yet (in which case it would be nice to have said something on the page). Why couldn't we just get an on/off feature like the other things we can turn on and off, meaning when it is on it changes the code to do whatever Wikia did to make it more compatible with all devices?

I just hope Wikia doesn't enforce it. After the mess last year, I don't exactly want to take a step back once more before going forward. This change from regular CSS, which would make more sense to me since it would be more universal, to something specifically classified by Wikia, is not exactly user friendly.