This is a talk page for improving WikiStyles.
  
Q why is a color word not a class class, eg
      (:div class="frame green"
style="font-size:smaller":)
This text should be small, green, and
surrounded by a frame
(:divend:)
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This text should be small, green, and surrounded by a frame
  
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Q why does this not work?
      (:div class="blue rframe" style="font-size:smaller":)
This text should be small, blue, and surrounded by a right floated frame
(:divend:)
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This text should be small, blue, and surrounded by a right floated frame
  
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Because, confusingly, rframe is not a class.
      (:div class="blue rfloat frame" style="font-size:smaller":)
This text should be small, blue, and surrounded by a right floated frame
(:divend:)
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This text should be small, blue, and surrounded by a right floated frame
  
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Q Is a wiki style a class
      %define=bclass bgcolor=#ddddff
border="1px dotted green"%
(:table:)
(:cellnr bclass:) test one
(:cellnr class="bclass":) test two
(:cellnr:)%bclass% test three
(:cellnr:)
>>bclass<<
test four
>><<
(:cellnr:)
(:div class="bclass":)
test five
(:divend:)
(:tableend:)
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|  test one
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It would be helpful to provide more consistency.
      %define=zclass block bgcolor=#ddddff
border="1px dotted green"%
(:table:)
(:cellnr zclass:) test one
(:cellnr class="zclass":) test two
(:cellnr:)%zclass% test three
(:cellnr:)
>>zclass<<
test four
>><<
(:cellnr:)
(:div class="zclass":)
test five
(:divend:)
(:tableend:)
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|  test one
 |  |  test two
 |  |  test three
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What happened to test 3?
Q Why does neither of these apply styles to the contents of the DIV?
      (:div class='lfloat' font-size='smaller' color='blue' bgcolor='#eee'
clear='left' :)
{*$Name}
(:divend:)
(:div style="font-size:'smaller'; color:'blue'; background-color:'#eee';
float:left; clear:'left';" :)
{*$Name}
(:divend:)
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… or these
      %define=mytrail div font-size='smaller' background-color='#eee'
float='right' clear='right' %
(:div:)
%mytrail%{*$Name}
(:divend:)
(:div mytrail:)
{*$Name}
(:divend:)
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 Remove apostrophes from style definition like this
      (:div style="font-size: smaller ; color: blue ; background-color: #eeeeee ;
" :)
{*$Name}
(:divend:)
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Q How do I specify background-color?
      %bgcolor=green% green
%bgcolor=#faf0b4% #faf0b4
%bgcolor:brown% brown
%bgcolor:#b4e6b4% #b4e6b4
%background-color=pink% pink
%background-color:yellow% yellow
%style='background-color:blue;'% blue
%background=green% green
%background=#ffbebe% #ffbebe
%background:brown% brown
%background:#b4e6b4% #b4e6b4
(:table:)
(:cellnr style="background:#faf0b4;" :) Role 
(:cell style="background:#ffbebe;" :) Moment, Interval 
(:cell style="background:#b4c8d2;" :) Description  
(:cell style="background:#b4e6b4;" :) Party, place, thing 
(:tableend:)
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 green
 #faf0b4
 brown
 #b4e6b4
 pink
 yellow
%style=‘background-color:blue;’% blue
 
 green
 #ffbebe
 brown
 #b4e6b4
 
|  Role 
 |  Moment, Interval 
 |  Description  
 |  Party, place, thing 
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