This page is unmaintained and may be buggy. If you want to get rid of all[citation needed] on a page, add the citations already.
This code solves two issues:
- Line-spacing problem for {{Citation needed}}, whereby superscripts add extra space. This works by simply setting the
verticalAlign
attribute to 'top'. This simple hack works on IE and Mozilla. - Replace the contents of {{Citation needed}} with contents of your own. Two examples are provided:
You will have choose which one you want by uncommenting/commenting one of them. I prefer the shorter text, which is what I'm using right now.
If you want to fix spacing for all <sup> and <ref> tags instead of customizing how {{citeneeded}} looks, consider adding the subpage /code.css to your customized CSS file.
Copy and paste the following text into your monobook.js.
/*
*/ function MyCitation() { // iterate over all <sup>-elements for(var i=0; a = document.getElementsByTagName("sup")[i]; i++) { // if found a citation thag if(a.getAttribute("title")=="Needs citation" || a.getAttribute("class")=="uncited") { // 1) fix style -- a wider-scope fix can be found at the corresponding CSS page. //a.style.verticalAlign = 'top'; // absolutely required for the image. a.style.textDecoration = 'blink'; // another alternative // 2) replace it with whatever I want. ** Note: Uncomment one of the following, or roll your own. ** // 2.1) Image //a.innerHTML = '<span style="padding: 0; margin: 0;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources" title="Citation needed"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Citation_needed.gif" alt="Citation needed" width="38" height="11" border="0"/></a></span>'; // 2.2) Shorter text a.innerHTML = '[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources" title="Citation needed">CITE</a>]'; } } } addOnloadHook(MyCitation); /*
*/