[wp-hackers] Styling of "post date"

[Mark Shields]

I took it further and just made it a div.

<?php the_date('', '<div class="postdate">','</div>'); ?>


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:20:33 +0100, Allan Mertner <amwp at mertner.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to suggest a small change to index.php to allow better
> control over the style of the date/timestamp of the post.
> 
> The change is trivial: change
> 
>    <?php the_date('','<h2>','</h2>'); ?>
> 
> to
> 
>    <?php the_date('','<h2 class="postdate">','</h2>'); ?>
> 
> With this change, the default behaviour is unchanged, but people can add
> a .postdate style to make it look different if they want.  For example,
> I use the following to achieve the effect I need:
> 
> .postdate {
>    font-variant: small-caps;
>    font-size: large;
>    float: left;
>    border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
>    padding-right: 3px;
>    width: 3em;
> }
> 
> Is this the right way and the right place to post this? :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Allan
> 
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- Mark Shields