Visual enhancement to best answer

phenomlab

As much as I dislike Stack Overflow (see the below video for examples - it’s one of reasons why I created Sudonix in order to establish a fairer experience. This is an issue that sadly, has been rife on SA for years - in essence, it’s something of a toxic experience)

However, I do like the way they show accepted answers to posts

Below is an example

Simplistic, but effective. I also like the way it’s presented in NodeBB, so decided to create something of a “mash-up” to share with others.

Here’s the default NodeBB experience

It’s effective - green border, with “solution” clearly stamped on it. Let’s take this a bit further with how we do this on Sudonix

Snazzy eh ??

In reality, this isn’t difficult to do at all. Essentially, we just use the CSS :after technique like below

.posts [component=post][data-index="-1"].isSolved:before {
    border-radius: 4px;
    top: -0.25rem;
}
    .isSolved:after {
        content: "\f058";
        font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro";
        position: absolute;
        top: 43px;
        right: 35px;
        font-size: 3rem;
        font-weight: 400;
        color: #77B300;
    }

Note that I’m using the Pro version of Font Awesome here, so if you want to use Font Awesome Free, you’ll need to substitute the block as below

    .isSolved:after {
        content: "\f058";
        font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free";
        position: absolute;
        top: 43px;
        right: 35px;
        font-size: 3rem;
        font-weight: 900;
        color: #77B300;
    }

As I’m also using an absolute placement here, it’s important I define two viewport classes, so

@media (min-width: 1200px) {
    .isSolved:after {
        content: "\f058";
        font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro";
        position: absolute;
        top: 43px;
        right: 35px;
        font-size: 3rem;
        font-weight: 400;
        color: #77B300;
    }
}

And for mobile

@media (max-width: 767px) {
    .isSolved .clearfix.post-header {
        margin-left: 5px !important;
        margin-top: 20px;
    }
    .isSolved:after {
        content: "\f058";
        font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Pro";
        position: absolute;
        top: 14px;
        right: 97px;
        font-size: 2rem;
        font-weight: 400;
        color: #77B300;
    }
}

This means that in mobile view, I get the below

And when you combine CSS, imagination, code blocks, and real answers for real people, you get something like this

Enjoy…

DownPW

Looks very great !!

Good job Mark and Thanks for sharing

DownPW

I have test your code on my forum @phenomlab

And I have this problem with police block content :

I resolv it by adding padding bottom on content with this code:

.isSolved .content {
    padding-top: 25px!important;
}

And I use this code for desktop :

.isSolved:after {
    content: "\f058";
    font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Pro";
    position: absolute;
    padding-left: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px !important;
    top: 40px;
    right: 40px;
    font-size: 2.5rem;
    font-weight: 400;
    color: #5cb85c;
}

And this for Mobile:

@media (max-width: 767px) {
.isSolved .clearfix.post-header {
    margin-left: -8px !important;
}
    
.posts [component=post][data-index="-1"].isSolved:before {
    margin-right: -10px;
}
 
.isSolved:after {
    content: "\f058";
    font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Pro";
    position: absolute;
    top: 40px;
    right: 30px;
    font-size: 2.5rem;
    font-weight: 400;
    color: #77B300;
}
}

RESULT:

Desktop:

Mobile:

Thanks Mark

phenomlab

@DownPW yes, I actually hide the welcome message on topics so I never factored this in

DownPW

Me too, disabled on mobile.

phenomlab

@DownPW Just reviewing this, as I just experienced the same symptoms as you. I decided on the below CSS, which might work better

@media (min-width: 1200px)
.isSolved p {
    width: 95%;
}
}

Some examples of how this looks.

On shorter messages, you don’t really notice the lesser width. Essentially, we go from this

to this

On larger messages, it looks as below

Because we only target the p element, and nothing else, the text width gets reduced, but other elements remain unchanged, so you don’t really notice the width being reduced

DownPW

Oh yeah great

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