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CSS code customization for the link preview plugin

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  • crazycellsundefined

    Hi @phenomlab ,

    I am working on CSS codes to customize the link-preview plugin for some time, but I was unsuccessful 😄 so, I wanted to consult you in case I am missing an important line…

    Unfortunately, normal previews of this plugin are too big for our taste, just like how iframely used to be…

    https://sudonix.org/post/4083

    I ended up something like this:

    .post-container .content .card {
    display: contents !important;  
}

.link-preview {
    
    .card-img-top {
        height:120px !important;
        width: auto !important;
        overflow: hidden !important;        
        float: left !important;
        padding: 0 5px 0 0 !important;      
    }
    
    .card-body {
        padding: 1px 1px 1px 1px !important;
    }
    
    .card-footer {
        position: relative !important;    
    }
}

    But this is nowhere near close to what I was aiming…

    This is how it used to be with iframely and what we are aiming:
    Screenshot 2024-04-02 at 22.04.41.png

    This is how ugly it looks right now 😄

    Screenshot 2024-04-02 at 22.02.51.png

    I hope you can help with this transformation 😄
    Thanks,

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  • phenomlabundefined

    @crazycells technically possible, yes - I can get somewhere near the desired layout as below

    7b646096-5c21-44a1-b283-54d6f94e579b-image.png

    However, this isn’t great from the CSS perspective as it’s something of a hack, and will not look good on mobile devices. Here’s the CSS for that if you want to use it.

    .post-container .content .card {
    display: contents !important;  
}
.link-preview .card-title {
    margin-left: -238px;
    float: left;
}
.link-preview .card-img-top {
    height: 120px !important;
    width: auto !important;
    overflow: hidden !important;
    float: left !important;
    padding: 0 5px 0 0 !important;
    margin-top: 35px;
}
.link-preview .card-text {
    margin-top: 20px;
    padding-left: 15px;
}
.link-preview .card-footer {
    position: relative !important;
    margin-top: 70px;
}
.link-preview .card-body {
    padding: 1px 1px 1px 1px !important;
}
.link-preview .card-text {
    margin-top: 35px;
    padding-left: 15px;
}

    The real issue with nodebb-plugin-link-preview is that it has no flexibility in terms of HTML layout meaning you have to get clever with CSS (and even then, it’s not clever at all).

    Using my OGProxy function, it would look like this by default

    https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17109/manual-build-a-night-mode-for-harmony

    However, because you have control over the HTML, you can simply rearrange it to suit your own needs.

    Author of OGProxy, Swatch, Threaded, Card, and most of Sudonix's bugs…

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  • crazycellsundefined

    @phenomlab does OGProxy show the pdf previews as well?

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  • phenomlabundefined

    @crazycells said in CSS code customization for the link preview plugin:

    does OGProxy show the pdf previews as well?

    Not yet, but it could with a bit of additional code.

    Author of OGProxy, Swatch, Threaded, Card, and most of Sudonix's bugs…

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  • Pandaundefined

    Nodebb icon on google page

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    phenomlabundefined

    @Panda It’s been raised multiple times, but only for the open source version, and not hosted.

  • Pandaundefined

    Can you adjust Admin settings on your NodeBB?

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    phenomlabundefined

    @Panda as, yes, now I understand and that makes 100% sense. It means those who get down voted can still have an opinion and use common services.

    And yes, you’re right. Rather than down vote, just ignore if you don’t agree.

  • crazycellsundefined

    Custom badges

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    DownPWundefined

    Perfect 😉

  • cagatayundefined

    Link Not Working

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    phenomlabundefined

    @cagatay Good question, but one that’s likely best answered by the devs themselves. Could easily be done with a simple jQuery regex but that would really just be painting over rotten wood.

  • DownPWundefined

    hover link effect

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    phenomlabundefined

    @DownPW Looking at the underlying code, class start is being added on hover by jQuery in this function

    document.querySelectorAll(".button-gradient, .button-transparent").forEach((button) => { const style = getComputedStyle(button); const lines = document.createElement("div"); lines.classList.add("lines"); const groupTop = document.createElement("div"); const groupBottom = document.createElement("div"); const svg = createSVG( button.offsetWidth, button.offsetHeight, parseInt(style.borderRadius, 10) ); groupTop.appendChild(svg); groupTop.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupTop.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupTop.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupBottom.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupBottom.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupBottom.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); groupBottom.appendChild(svg.cloneNode(true)); lines.appendChild(groupTop); lines.appendChild(groupBottom); button.appendChild(lines); button.addEventListener("pointerenter", () => { button.classList.add("start"); }); svg.addEventListener("animationend", () => { button.classList.remove("start"); }); }); })

    The CSS for start is below

    .button-gradient.start .lines svg, .button-transparent.start .lines svg { animation: stroke 0.3s linear; }

    And this is the corresponding keyframe

    @keyframes stroke { 30%, 55% { opacity: 1; } 100% { stroke-dashoffset: 5; opacity: 0; } }

    It’s using both CSS and SVG, so might not be a simple affair to replicate without the SVG files.

  • cagatayundefined

    Request Sudonix css/js and full analysis info

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    phenomlabundefined

    Closing this in favour of https://sudonix.com/topic/357/post-style-view/28

  • DownPWundefined

    Quote design CSS

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    phenomlabundefined

    @DownPW yes, that does make sense actually. I forgot to mention the layout of Sudonix is custom so that would have an impact on the positioning.

    Good spot 🙂

  • JACundefined

    Display tweets in widget [NodeBB]

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    JACundefined

    @phenomlab brilliant, many thanks Mark 😁