InsaneJournal

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Only Early Inmates, "Self-committed" [paid] and Permanently Insane account holders can create custom styles. If you are a Free Patient and would like to create your own style, you will first need to get a Self-committed account (http://www.insanejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8).

Free Patients are limited to customizing their journal by only using overrides (http://www.insanejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=100) in the Modify Journal page (http://www.insanejournal.com/modify.bml) or through the S2 customization interface [http://insanejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=130].

In order to edit a custom style, you will need to first create a style to work from, which can be done at the Create a Style page (http://www.insanejournal.com/styles/create.bml). You can either start from a blank style, or base your style off an existing system style template. Once you have done this, you can then edit your style (http://www.insanejournal.com/styles/edit.bml) to your liking.

The default name for a new style is <username>-<view type>-new.

Since the style creation page will not overwrite an existing style, you will need to change the name of your new style if you would like to create additional styles for that view. Until you change the name of the style from the default name, you will be unable to create new styles for that view.

You can change the name of your style on the Edit Style page (http://www.insanejournal.com/styles/edit.bml), under "Style Description". Under "Style Options", you can choose to make the style Public, which affects whether or not another InsaneJournal user can see the coding that makes up your style (and possibly use it).

You will need to save your style for any changes to take effect.

Once you have created a custom style, you will first need to select that style for your journal. Go to http://www.insanejournal.com/modify.bml and under whatever view you made it for, choose the style from the drop-down menu and Save Changes.


For more information on how the style creation system works and how to use it, see http://www.insanejournal.com/developer/styles.bml .

For more information on the view types you can create styles for, see http://www.insanejournal.com/developer/views.bml .

For more information on the variables used to create styles, see http://www.insanejournal.com/developer/varlist.bml .

For information on creating a custom style using S2, see http://insanejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=130 .