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  • @crazycells I expect the quickest way to do this will be using groups. I do something similar - I have a “verified” group, and once a new member starts engaging, they are added here so I know they are actually who they say they are.

    In terms of CSS, I use

    .group-label {
        margin-right: -12px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        width: 22px;
        height: 22px;
        border-radius: 11px;
        line-height: 21px;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        text-align: center;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    small.label.group-label.inline-block i {
        margin-top: 1px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        vertical-align: middle;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
    }
    

    It wouldn’t take much effort to get these to look like the blue Twitter check mark.

    As a point of interest (and convenience), Font Awesome has something extremely close

    59db89f5-2c7a-4052-8106-31264d7fa05f-image.png

    Sadly, it’s part of the PRO set, so unless you have a license, it’s not within reach

    1b9bde0a-1b83-41e5-a0ba-5b1131a68332-image.png

    However, I have a license, and could easily make a PNG out of this without too much effort for those who don’t (not cheap AT USD 99.00 per year).

    If you’d rather not use groups, you can use native CSS, but you are limited in terms of targets. For example, the author badge is easy because you can simply target the [itemprop="author"] class. However, posts from other users will not have this, and that’s where the groups come to the rescue.

    If any interest, I can put some code together to show you how this would work.

    wrote on last edited by
    #7

    @phenomlab how can I target one specific group with CSS codes?
    With this CSS, other group badges turn into rounds as well.

  • @phenomlab how can I target one specific group with CSS codes?
    With this CSS, other group badges turn into rounds as well.

    wrote on last edited by
    #8

    Screen Shot 2022-11-17 at 13.28.34.png

    actually, it looks very good (quite acceptable for our case 🙂 ), thanks for the CSS codes; however CSS codes affect other group badges too…

    group name: verified

    how can I restrict CSS codes to this group? I checked the inspector, I can only see group links, but not specific names…

  • @crazycells I expect the quickest way to do this will be using groups. I do something similar - I have a “verified” group, and once a new member starts engaging, they are added here so I know they are actually who they say they are.

    In terms of CSS, I use

    .group-label {
        margin-right: -12px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        width: 22px;
        height: 22px;
        border-radius: 11px;
        line-height: 21px;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        text-align: center;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    small.label.group-label.inline-block i {
        margin-top: 1px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        vertical-align: middle;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
    }
    

    It wouldn’t take much effort to get these to look like the blue Twitter check mark.

    As a point of interest (and convenience), Font Awesome has something extremely close

    59db89f5-2c7a-4052-8106-31264d7fa05f-image.png

    Sadly, it’s part of the PRO set, so unless you have a license, it’s not within reach

    1b9bde0a-1b83-41e5-a0ba-5b1131a68332-image.png

    However, I have a license, and could easily make a PNG out of this without too much effort for those who don’t (not cheap AT USD 99.00 per year).

    If you’d rather not use groups, you can use native CSS, but you are limited in terms of targets. For example, the author badge is easy because you can simply target the [itemprop="author"] class. However, posts from other users will not have this, and that’s where the groups come to the rescue.

    If any interest, I can put some code together to show you how this would work.

    wrote on last edited by DownPW
    #9

    @phenomlab

    Thank you very much for the code.

    In my case, I would like to display the group labels after the user level label because as it is it’s not very nice

    Same for Author Badge

    6e43f17a-ed43-451c-b68f-4f3a5bc71078-image.png

  • @phenomlab

    Thank you very much for the code.

    In my case, I would like to display the group labels after the user level label because as it is it’s not very nice

    Same for Author Badge

    6e43f17a-ed43-451c-b68f-4f3a5bc71078-image.png

    wrote on last edited by
    #10

    @DownPW and @crazycells could you let me have URL’s where I can see examples of what you’ve posted?

  • @DownPW and @crazycells could you let me have URL’s where I can see examples of what you’ve posted?

    wrote on last edited by
    #11

    @phenomlab Prod server

  • @phenomlab Prod server

    wrote on last edited by
    #12

    @DownPW Something like this?

    879aa7c9-5e97-4c5f-bb82-014524653254-image.png

    CSS modifications

    .topic-owner-post [itemprop="author"] {
        float: left;
    }
    // Add these to (or edit) the existing classes you have
    .user-level-topic {
        float: none;
    }
    .group-label {
        margin-top: -1px;
    }
    .topic-owner-post [itemprop="author"]:after {
        margin-top: 1px;
        height: 18px;
    }
    
  • @DownPW Something like this?

    879aa7c9-5e97-4c5f-bb82-014524653254-image.png

    CSS modifications

    .topic-owner-post [itemprop="author"] {
        float: left;
    }
    // Add these to (or edit) the existing classes you have
    .user-level-topic {
        float: none;
    }
    .group-label {
        margin-top: -1px;
    }
    .topic-owner-post [itemprop="author"]:after {
        margin-top: 1px;
        height: 18px;
    }
    
    wrote on last edited by DownPW
    #13

    @phenomlab

    yep but I have not the same result as you with this code :

    24bc3b0a-29a3-45f7-8e6b-bc72f6248bda-image.png

    The username is after the userlevel badge 😒

  • @phenomlab

    yep but I have not the same result as you with this code :

    24bc3b0a-29a3-45f7-8e6b-bc72f6248bda-image.png

    The username is after the userlevel badge 😒

    wrote on last edited by
    #14

    @DownPW Can you put the code back to what I provided? I see you are making changes

  • @DownPW Can you put the code back to what I provided? I see you are making changes

    wrote on last edited by
    #15
  • wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #16

    @DownPW Thanks. Seems I forgot this

    [itemprop="author"] {
        float: left;
    }
    

    And this which will fix the overlap on the reply label

    .topic [component="post/parent"] {
        margin-left: 15px;
    }
    
  • @DownPW Thanks. Seems I forgot this

    [itemprop="author"] {
        float: left;
    }
    

    And this which will fix the overlap on the reply label

    .topic [component="post/parent"] {
        margin-left: 15px;
    }
    
    wrote on last edited by
    #17

    @phenomlab Ha yes very good thanks dude 😉 You’re the best always 😉

  • Screen Shot 2022-11-17 at 13.28.34.png

    actually, it looks very good (quite acceptable for our case 🙂 ), thanks for the CSS codes; however CSS codes affect other group badges too…

    group name: verified

    how can I restrict CSS codes to this group? I checked the inspector, I can only see group links, but not specific names…

    wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #18

    @crazycells Let’s try this

    In /forum/admin/manage/groups/verified, remove the highlighted section

    1c9e1406-d641-4e6c-8a03-e452c9462768-image.png

    We are then left with no text, but a clearer looking icon

    149c24c4-c95c-4a6e-8dc4-52340e4d0bed-image.png

    Now remove the previous CSS blocks I provided here

    Add replacement CSS

    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] {
        margin-right: 3px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        border-radius: 50%;
        line-height: 20px;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        text-align: center;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    small.label.group-label.inline-block i {
        margin-top: 1px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        vertical-align: middle;
        justify-content: center;
        display: flex;
    }
    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label {
        min-width: 20px;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
    }
    .group-label {
        vertical-align: -6px;
    }
    
    

    You should land up with something like this

    16a50d49-f765-46c9-a480-344a592baf13-image.png

    As you can see, this forces the stars out of alignment, but I don’t think this is too much of a sacrifice, and could be remediated with additional targeted CSS if need be.

    Essentially, because NodeBB doesn’t provide an id field (which would be a lot easier), we have to use wildcard CSS such as .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] but make it targeted in the sense that it will only fire if it is part of the post stream, hence .post-header at the beginning.

    We then use .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label to target the actual label (but only when we have a wildcard match in the CSS) meaning we can set a minimum width so that the circle doesn’t look quashed (we need to validate this on Firefox though as additional CSS might be required due to how the webkit engine will render this in contrast to mozilla).

    Finally, we use .group-label to force alignment in terms of height to prevent it wandering out of the inline-block.

    This is already active on your forum, so nothing for you to do but (hopefully) admire 🙂

    Let me know.

  • phenomlab phenomlab referenced this topic on
  • @crazycells Let’s try this

    In /forum/admin/manage/groups/verified, remove the highlighted section

    1c9e1406-d641-4e6c-8a03-e452c9462768-image.png

    We are then left with no text, but a clearer looking icon

    149c24c4-c95c-4a6e-8dc4-52340e4d0bed-image.png

    Now remove the previous CSS blocks I provided here

    Add replacement CSS

    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] {
        margin-right: 3px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        border-radius: 50%;
        line-height: 20px;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        text-align: center;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    small.label.group-label.inline-block i {
        margin-top: 1px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        vertical-align: middle;
        justify-content: center;
        display: flex;
    }
    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label {
        min-width: 20px;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
    }
    .group-label {
        vertical-align: -6px;
    }
    
    

    You should land up with something like this

    16a50d49-f765-46c9-a480-344a592baf13-image.png

    As you can see, this forces the stars out of alignment, but I don’t think this is too much of a sacrifice, and could be remediated with additional targeted CSS if need be.

    Essentially, because NodeBB doesn’t provide an id field (which would be a lot easier), we have to use wildcard CSS such as .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] but make it targeted in the sense that it will only fire if it is part of the post stream, hence .post-header at the beginning.

    We then use .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label to target the actual label (but only when we have a wildcard match in the CSS) meaning we can set a minimum width so that the circle doesn’t look quashed (we need to validate this on Firefox though as additional CSS might be required due to how the webkit engine will render this in contrast to mozilla).

    Finally, we use .group-label to force alignment in terms of height to prevent it wandering out of the inline-block.

    This is already active on your forum, so nothing for you to do but (hopefully) admire 🙂

    Let me know.

    wrote on last edited by DownPW
    #19

    @phenomlab

    Just one things my friend.

    I search a css class for display groupname on group icons mouse over but don’t find it.
    if you have that in your hat I’m a taker 😉

  • @phenomlab

    Just one things my friend.

    I search a css class for display groupname on group icons mouse over but don’t find it.
    if you have that in your hat I’m a taker 😉

    wrote on last edited by phenomlab
    #20

    @DownPW Mmmmm, yes, the fastest way to do that would be to use the title attribute. Bootstrap has native support for that

    8e9af7a4-b69c-4573-93cb-72dce2d8bcf3-image.png

    If you added this attribute then hovered over the element, you’d see this

    4cd5440b-649f-4817-be85-08ff54a8859b-image.png

    It’s possible to write jQuery to handle this - aside from that, you’d need to hack into the post template which I wouldn’t recommend. There isn’t any native CSS that will do this for you sadly, so the title="" attribute is the best way forward but won’t do anything without custom JS.

    EDIT - I actually have a requirement for this myself, so will probably write some code to do it over the coming days/weeks (really depending on how much free time I have).

  • @crazycells Let’s try this

    In /forum/admin/manage/groups/verified, remove the highlighted section

    1c9e1406-d641-4e6c-8a03-e452c9462768-image.png

    We are then left with no text, but a clearer looking icon

    149c24c4-c95c-4a6e-8dc4-52340e4d0bed-image.png

    Now remove the previous CSS blocks I provided here

    Add replacement CSS

    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] {
        margin-right: 3px;
        margin-top: 1px;
        border-radius: 50%;
        line-height: 20px;
        display: inline-block;
        vertical-align: middle;
        text-align: center;
        overflow: hidden;
    }
    small.label.group-label.inline-block i {
        margin-top: 1px;
        margin-left: 0px;
        vertical-align: middle;
        justify-content: center;
        display: flex;
    }
    .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label {
        min-width: 20px;
        display: flex;
        justify-content: center;
    }
    .group-label {
        vertical-align: -6px;
    }
    
    

    You should land up with something like this

    16a50d49-f765-46c9-a480-344a592baf13-image.png

    As you can see, this forces the stars out of alignment, but I don’t think this is too much of a sacrifice, and could be remediated with additional targeted CSS if need be.

    Essentially, because NodeBB doesn’t provide an id field (which would be a lot easier), we have to use wildcard CSS such as .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] but make it targeted in the sense that it will only fire if it is part of the post stream, hence .post-header at the beginning.

    We then use .post-header a[href*="/forum/groups/verified"] .group-label to target the actual label (but only when we have a wildcard match in the CSS) meaning we can set a minimum width so that the circle doesn’t look quashed (we need to validate this on Firefox though as additional CSS might be required due to how the webkit engine will render this in contrast to mozilla).

    Finally, we use .group-label to force alignment in terms of height to prevent it wandering out of the inline-block.

    This is already active on your forum, so nothing for you to do but (hopefully) admire 🙂

    Let me know.

    wrote on last edited by
    #21

    @phenomlab thank you very much 🙂 it looks great!

  • crazycells crazycells has marked this topic as solved on
  • @DownPW Mmmmm, yes, the fastest way to do that would be to use the title attribute. Bootstrap has native support for that

    8e9af7a4-b69c-4573-93cb-72dce2d8bcf3-image.png

    If you added this attribute then hovered over the element, you’d see this

    4cd5440b-649f-4817-be85-08ff54a8859b-image.png

    It’s possible to write jQuery to handle this - aside from that, you’d need to hack into the post template which I wouldn’t recommend. There isn’t any native CSS that will do this for you sadly, so the title="" attribute is the best way forward but won’t do anything without custom JS.

    EDIT - I actually have a requirement for this myself, so will probably write some code to do it over the coming days/weeks (really depending on how much free time I have).

    wrote on last edited by DownPW
    #22

    @phenomlab said in Custom badges:

    It’s possible to write jQuery to handle this - aside from that, you’d need to hack into the post template which I wouldn’t recommend. There isn’t any native CSS that will do this for you sadly, so the title=“” attribute is the best way forward but won’t do anything without custom JS.
    EDIT - I actually have a requirement for this myself, so will probably write some code to do it over the coming days/weeks (really depending on how much free time I have).

    very clever the addition of this “Title=” attribute, I would not have thought of it myself !! Cheer !!

    This is exactly the result I’m looking for !
    I don’t even know why, I’m not amazed at your prowess anymore 🙂

    Excellent 😉

  • @phenomlab thank you very much 🙂 it looks great!

    wrote on last edited by
    #23

    @phenomlab lol verified badge changed here as well 🙂

    is there an easy CSS code to make it look more like a flower, rather than perfectly round? (just like the Twitter one)

  • @phenomlab lol verified badge changed here as well 🙂

    is there an easy CSS code to make it look more like a flower, rather than perfectly round? (just like the Twitter one)

    wrote on last edited by
    #24

    @crazycells it’s possible, but would be very complex. Much less hassle to use either a direct image (which probably won’t look very good on scale) or use this SVG from Font Awesome which appears to be free 👍

    https://fontawesomeicons.com/svg/icons/twitter-verified-badge

  • @crazycells it’s possible, but would be very complex. Much less hassle to use either a direct image (which probably won’t look very good on scale) or use this SVG from Font Awesome which appears to be free 👍

    https://fontawesomeicons.com/svg/icons/twitter-verified-badge

    wrote on last edited by
    #25

    @phenomlab thanks.

  • @crazycells it’s possible, but would be very complex. Much less hassle to use either a direct image (which probably won’t look very good on scale) or use this SVG from Font Awesome which appears to be free 👍

    https://fontawesomeicons.com/svg/icons/twitter-verified-badge

    wrote on last edited by
    #26

    @phenomlab since both admin and global moderator badges are close to purple/maroon color, you can change one to green (which I believe was the verified badge color)


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