So I’m trying to add a gradient to my name with MediaWiki:Common.css, but it won’t work. How would I fix this? Link pending. @lone lily
#Name color change
lone lily
drifting dragon
Snippet of current code
a[href="/wiki/User:Blad"], a[href="https://darkwitch.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Blad"] { font-family: "Roboto Mono", monospace; background:linear-gradient(#ff00ff,#c800c8,purple,#c800c8,#ff00ff); -webkit-background-clip:text; font-weight: bold; }
i'll check
i should have a gradient
huh
works for me, try clearing you cache
oh wait the gradient is missing
ugh
umbral pier
It works correctly, but because it uses the background to add a gradient, the original link text covers it. Simply add color: transparent; to the code above and it works! 
open flint
It works correctly, but because it uses the background to add a gradient, the or...
My name is blank now, do I still save the edit?
drifting dragon
top 10 reasons why i hate css
umbral pier
My name is blank now, do I still save the edit?
Hm weird, is it really not blank anymore after saving the changes if you go into edit mode again?
I can't think of any reason why it'd behave like that, unless you added the transparent CSS first and then went to add the gradient
umbral pier
Hm, I'll take a look. Order of different css stylings shouldn't matter
Strange, works perfectly for me on Chrome
Is it also transparent in Recent Changes?
Oh I see why. The nickname in the top bar has a span inside
kk I think I found a fix! change the selector to
a[href="/wiki/User:Blad"]:not(#pt-userpage),
a[href="https://darkwitch.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Blad"]:not(#pt-userpage)
It worked!
umbral pier
Also an alternate way of selecting links to users I use for my wiki: (of course add the :not(#pt-userpage) if you want to use it)
a[href$=":Blad"],
a[href$="/Blad"]
It doesn't require to type the full url every time. Found it in a CSS cookbook on a fandom wiki
Haven't tested but it could trigger on a subpage that shares a name with a user, so not sure if it's an upgrade or not haha