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A work skin tutorial of a Google Search Suggestions page in AO3.
See Chapter 1 for examples of the work skin with 4 different suggestions types (auto-complete suggestions, recent history, related to recent searches and trending searches), Chapter 2 for an explanation of the CSS work skin, Chapter 3 for the complete CSS code of the work skin, Chapter 4 for explanations of the HTML code and Chapter 5 for the complete HTML code (all 4 types of suggestions).
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Inside, Outside, Upside-down by 𝖀𝓷ᶦ𝕔ⓞðə E Ⓜ️🅾️j̵͍̟̝̝̖̮̓ͭͨ̂̐̚ℹ️ (Charles_Rockafellor)
Fandoms: AO3 CSS, css - Fandom, HTML - Fandom
24 Mar 2025
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I threw this together overnight (and have tweaked it some since then). Just applying a few little CSS party tricks that I've learned or developed along the way... 😉
My tricks aren't revealed in the narration, but since this is a How To series, you should be able to ferret them out by now — and if not, then take it as your homework challenge! ❤️
Use your 1337 haX0r Wiz zen skillz.
Click for keynote
Best viewed on a COMPUTER browser with a MOUSE, not a 'phone where some effects will be missed or simply not optimized (though there are a couple of surprises that appear on iPhone [not Android] rather than desktop browsers).
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CAUTION, beware of audio from invisible video; see notes.
⚠️Cf. notes in work skin for issues w.r.t. different approaches used in this work.
Series
- Part 9 of How to
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Skin for Putting Music Indicators in Your Fic by SpookyTesting (FierySprites)
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Apr 2022
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A work skin for inserting stylized music links into your fic, ala Super Smash Bros.’ music labels at the start of each match.
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Skin for Recreating Unlocked Achievements by SpookyTesting (FierySprites)
Fandoms: No Fandom
17 Feb 2024
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A work skin for recreating the Achievement/Trophy Unlocked messages from various systems, including PlayStation and Xbox.
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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!
* Full code included
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Here is the CSS/HTML for a simple sports scoreboard to use in your AO3 works.
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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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Tide: a flat and clean skin for Ao3 by ElectricAlice
Fandoms: Archive of Our Own, Fandom - Fandom
18 Jul 2021
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A site skin for Ao3 that clean and minimal and somewhat more modern than the default skin.
Available both in dark and light mode.Series
- Part 8 of CSS code scripts for Ao3
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A Reddit template for use on AO3.