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[astridv]

I just finished the sketches for an entire book in one week *faints, but proudly* Now, there's finally time to get back to work on our new, cool, searchable auto-archive. No more excuses. No distracting fandom kerfuffles. It's almost finished, too... all that's left to do is transfer about 350 stories over from the old archive. Piece of cake *faints again*

Let's go see if whichwitch666 and valkyrn are in an updating mood, too. Misery loves company ;o)

In case you wonder, I'm just posting this so people can kick me in the ass if I start procrastinating again.

Also, there's one minor layout thingy I haven't figured out how to do yet. Anyone here happen to know something about stylesheets?

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[astridv.livejournal.com]

Okay, I see what's causing the problem.
I like hearing that. Thank you, that's very helpful! The usual response I got whenever asking someone a question about the archive was, Guh?!

In the search page source code change this (just before the beginning FORM tag):

Okay, I see what you mean. Problem is that I can't go and change the html in the search page, as all the forms are dynamically created by the cgi scripts... using form_lib.pl, I _think_... I just spent a few happy hours trying to figure out how and where exactly the html for the forms gets created, but to no avail. Way out of my league.

However, I did make some progress, using your table.outside idea. I'm not exactly sure what I did or why it works, but I may be getting somewhere. I used an old, discarded version of the archive to practise (http://s8219.net/BBF/cgi-bin/search.cgi). I had to use an separate stylesheet for the search form after all, but at least now I have one outline on each page, hopefully at the right place. Hard to tell with the white background. I'm gonna try it out in the real archive tomorrow or so.