How to undo LJ's latest stupidity

[velessa]

If you hate the new look of LJ-cuts, the scissors character followed by three dots (presuming your system has the font to display them), there is a way to get rid of them. The following CSS (supplied by zweiundzwei) will restore the old LJ cut look if added to the custom CSS portion of your journal theme.

.ljcut-link { color:transparent; margin-left:-25px; }
.ljcut-link:before { content:"( "; color:#000000; padding-left:25px; }
.ljcut-link:after { content:" )"; color:#000000; }
.ljcut-link a { margin-left:-25px; }

You may need to change the margins and padding to suit your font, and of course the color should be changed to whatever your base font color is in your layout (or whatever color you want for your lj-cut parentheses).

Spread the word! Thanks for posting this, toshirodragon!

Comments

[theydontsayyes.livejournal.com]

thank you x1000

[lucathia]

Thank you! Will definitely try this out.

[velessa.livejournal.com]

It worked for me. :)

[lucathia]

Just added it to my css. :D Worked like a charm! I'll have to pass it on too~

[dressagedreams.livejournal.com]

I am HTML dumb...the most I know how to do is place a picture in a comment. For that reason I use the non-html entry for my LJ and it now has a "Spoiler" link that functions like the old cuts as far as I can tell when trying it out briefly just now.

Just thought I'd share.