Icon background color

I changed the background color for the icon to be gray like Template:StyleFood. This way the icons for items that naturally have black (e.g. Cichol Puppet) will be visible. Is everyone okay with this, or do you have a different color to suggest?

Wouldn't it be better to apply the change on the image class in MediaWiki:Common.css?

I'm not familiar with the css so I didn't want to touch it. Tell me where to change it and I'll do it.

It's pretty much the same as regular coding. All you have to do is replace

table.mabitable tr.image td, table.mabitable td.image,
table.imagetable td, table.imagetable th {
    background-color: #000;
}

with

table.mabitable tr.image td, table.mabitable td.image,
table.imagetable td, table.imagetable th {
    background-color: #333;
}

(I think.) But that will effect every imagetable on the wiki. No item will have a black background.

The irony. A text replacement in a post requesting replacement.

Hush :C

Meant to edit this, not double post...

The only unpleasant side effect I can think of doing this is that all of those nice previews people has taken in front of the Dunbarton Library doorway will look odd now. :\

And things like that is why I recommended this.

After thinking about this, and seeing the current results I think I prefer a completely black background because it makes most icons pop out more. But perhaps apply a switch when you are dealing with an icon that contain black.

I don't like the gray much, either. It looks out of place since the table's borders are also gray. I'm fine with the switch idea.

So, should it be a style override such as ImageStyle=background: #333; or more like BlackIcon=y While the latter is shorter, the former is more customizable for the situation.

Can you do that with CSS?

Very easily.

Maybe if we edit the template but how would that work with CSS? (I don't know too much about CSS.)