HTML & CSS stuffs
A collection of useful Ao3 posts for CSS and HTML
(Open, Unmoderated)
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Userscript and CSS, as you prefer, to return overflow and sticky effects client-side by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor) for feindcode (feind)
Fandoms: CSS abuse - Fandom
12 Jun 2026
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What can I say that isn't pretty self-evident from the title?On Mon 08 Jun 2026, AO3 updated some stuff that broke a lot of things in a lot of people's CSS-works (and at least one userscript). I fixed it. This fix is only client-side, so that you can re-enable some of the magic that some people have wrought and see it once more as a reader — it doesn't act from within a work skin to force a rollback to the actual server-side site-level underlying code itself, so it's not much good directly for authors (indirectly: your readers might use this to see your effects).
Have you seen some of my CSS demos, or a number of heavy hitters' works that the change broke?1 If so (before the “update”), then you know and remember; if not, then you're going to want to do so, and you'll want this CSS or JS with which to view them in all of their glory.
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Olive Pine Moon site skin theme by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: Site Skin - Fandom
03 May 2026
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This theme uses an olive tone as its basis, and was built at the request of a Redditor.
It requires ravenothere's Closer to Home BASE site skin in order to function.
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This is a personal experiment with HTML. It is a very limited list with what I find useful.
Update: Somehow I find more and more stuff useful, so this list is not that limited (and not that private) anymore. I'll improve it with time and according to my needs and interests.So far that's posted:
Part One: Basics
Part Two: Lines
Part Three: Footnotes and Links
Part Four: Columns and Skins
Part Five: Pictures
Part Six: Videos (and gifs)
Part Seven: Choose Your Own Adventure
Part Eight: Chapter Title
Part Nine: The Title, the Username, and Links
Part Ten: Kudos Message
Part Eleven: Newspaper Article
Part Twelve: Content Notes and Spoiler (NEW: Opacity and hover translations)
Part Thirteen: Playground for Jinx (glitch text, color, table)
Part Fourteen: Text generator
Part Fifteen: Boxes (still in progress)
Part Sixteen: Vertical Text
Part Seventeen: Transition (NEW)
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Userscript to add Series [Public] Bookmarks total count to author's stats page by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 stats - Fandom
04 Jan 2026
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It's bugged me vaguely for years, though never enough that I really cared... but it hit me last night: if JS can do one thing, such as return the special kudos messages to their days of tailored glory, then it can do another, so... yeah, why not?
If you want to see your series' total number of public bookmarks in your stats page: you got it! ❤️
NB: Cf. Userscript to return tailored kudos thanks' and styled comments' visibility client-side re. CSS to return
overflowandsticky, or link for same as a userscript.Full code included.
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Userscript to return tailored kudos thanks' and styled comments' visibility client-side by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor) for Mewsmodeus (Mewzebub), GumbaBunny
Fandoms: CSS abuse - Fandom
02 Jan 2026
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Remember when people started tailoring their kudos messages and error notices? Pepperidge Farm remembers — and so do I.
Permit those messages to be seen and go brrrrr again (at least for you as a reader).
I use it in Violentmonkey and Tampermonkey. I don't speak JS (this is me dipping my toes into the water here) and am not at all familiar with the ins and outs of all of the different userscript managers, so you might need slightly different syntax or something if you use a different one (and since I discovered last night that Chrome no longer supports Violentmonkey, and it seems that Tampermonkey and others aren't really open source, I was stuck between Skýlla and Khárybdis). And bonus: it even permits the effect on multichapter works in single-chapter mode!
2x bonus: link at bottom for stats' page SERIES bookmark count.
3x bonus: link beneath that to returnoverflowandsticky.Don't Panic
Make Kudos Great Again!
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Persona 5 Workskin Testing and Reference by arcaneCalligrapher
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
20 Apr 2024
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This is a testbed where I'll be figuring out the nuances of making workskins in the style of Persona 5. I'll be editing this frequently as I experiment and refine the code.
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22 Jul 2026
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Epistolary workskin by irrationalpie for Stratisphyre
Fandoms: No Fandom, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
24 Apr 2025
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A simple workskin and tutorial for including letters in a fic (with a mini fic to demonstrate!).
This workskin merges with the reader's site skin rather than overriding the text or background color (tested with both default/light mode and reversi/dark mode).
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We ride at dawn, to fight the programming errors on our screens and to tear our hair out and cry the long suffering cry.
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A tutorial + live example on how to add Gmail-esque emails into your fic using CSS and HTML.
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- Part 3 of Cool Coding Kumquats
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Mimicking Twitter Posts for Fics - Some Twitter Workskins by Ultraviollett
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Real Person Fiction
20 Apr 2024
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A repository of a twitter skin I made for Ao3, so you can add your characters tweeting at eachother inside your fic. Friendly towards different siteskins, disabled workskins, screenreaders and mobile readers.
This is mainly a demo, not a tutorial. I am currently planning to create a generator for this workskin on this site.
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- Part 4 of AO3 workskins