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[aldro]

Hi. Newbie here. *waves*

I'm sorry if this has been asked before or if I'm in the wrong place--I'm just beginning to find my way around here. I'm wondering if it's possible to set an image for the metadata (i.e. tags) and if so, how to go about it. Can I add/edit something in my CSS or do I need a theme layer like I do over at LiveJournal?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[matgb]

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but pretty much everything on the site is, deliberately, marked up with very strong classes and similar, so you should be able to put images in easily.

Can you point us to the effect you want? Images as backgrounds or replacement text are fairly easy to do, but I don't know what exactly you want to acheive.

[aldro]

Instead of the word "Tags', I would like an image to show up (a tiny icon). But I'm not sure how to achieve this with my CSS or any Dreamwidth option, really.

To show you what I mean exactly, I've added an example.

[matgb]

OK, yes, should be easy, you've already somehow stopped the 'tag' text itself to display, so you need to add a before image to .footer .tag, but I have to go pick the kid up from school, if you don't know how to do it, holler and I'll figure it out (been awhile, personally dislike image replacement, not my style).

[aldro]

I'm sorry to say that I don't know how to do it. I am a noob...

If you could explain to me what exactly to do, that would be great! Take your time, though. I appreciate the help!

[ninetydegrees]

.tag-text {
background: url(http://URL) center no-repeat;
padding-left: WIDTH;
}

WIDTH is the width of your image plus extra padding if you want some.