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== Help Request ==

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My problem is I don't like Wikipedia's default white background, and would like to read light text on a dark background. So I have just created an account.

To my dismay none of the Skins available offer light-on-dark. They're all dark-on-light designs.

So I tried to find myself around. I couldn't find any direct help on this, but after a while I found the Metawiki User Gallery. I tried to follow the instructions on how to create my own Monobook.css page.

Now I have two problems that completely stump me:

1) The user style I tried did weird things to my layout. I could not delete the css page, and blanking it didn't help. So I seem to be stuck with it. Please make my style return to normal!

2) What is the ''good'' way to read Wikipedia with light text on a dark background. I do not want to change any other part of the layout - '''only''' the colors.

It would really be helpful if the Skins tab on the user preferences had a link such as "don't like any of the above skins? Go here, or do this, to get assistance".

: Okay so 1) is solved - apparently it just took a while. I'm back to black on white. Now for 2)...

:Hi there! You were going about this the right way, somebody's just done it for you already :-D. Go to [[MediaWiki:Gadget-Blackskin.css]]. Copy all that text (inside the box). Paste it into your monobook.css page. Bypass your cache and you should be doing fine! If you need any more help, feel free to post here or [[User talk:Omtay38|on my talk page]]. Hope this helped! --<font color="#617599" face="Courier New">[[User:Omtay38|omtay]]</font><font color="#999999" face="Courier New">[[User talk:Omtay38|38]]</font> 19:59, 4 February 2008 (UTC)