[wp-hackers] Styling of "post date"

[Allan Mertner]

Mark Shields wrote:

>I took it further and just made it a div.
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><?php the_date('', '<div class="postdate">','</div>'); ?>
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I have done the same, but the default look is not the same if you do 
that.  I'd prefer a div or a span tag, but in the interest of backwards 
compatibility, I can live with h2 as long a class identifier is added.

Allan

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>On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:20:33 +0100, Allan Mertner <amwp at mertner.com> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>The change is trivial: change
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>>   <?php the_date('','<h2>','</h2>'); ?>
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>>   <?php the_date('','<h2 class="postdate">','</h2>'); ?>
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>>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:
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>>.postdate {
>>   font-variant: small-caps;
>>   font-size: large;
>>   float: left;
>>   border-right: 1px solid #ccc;
>>   padding-right: 3px;
>>   width: 3em;
>>}
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>>Is this the right way and the right place to post this? :)
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>>Thanks,
>>Allan
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