Help:Favorites

Adding and removing pages to your favorites works pretty much like the watchlist.

When a page is in your favorites it is highlighted as such, e.g. by an optional icon next to it: 2013-04-25 - Example Link - To A Favorited Page

On category pages you can explore your favorites directly via

On Special:Favoritelist you can manage your favorites. This page is also linked in the user links section (upper right).

On all MixesDB:Explorer pages you'll find the filter "Is in my favorites". This will let you easily explore and manage your favorite mixes, players, videos, charts, images or categories.

Show others what you like

By default your favorites are private and nobody will know who has what in his favorites. If you want to share your favorites with others you can do so on your user page (or a subpage) using the favorites tag: <favorites />. Examples: User:MDB/Favorites

== My favorites ==

<favorites />

Separate namespaces

You can also sepereate your favorites into lists per namespace using ns="".

== My favorite categories ==

<favorites ns="Category" />

== My favorite mixes ==

<favorites ns="Mixes" />

All namespaces that make sense:

• ns="Mixes"
• ns="File"
  • ns="Images" (returns a gallery)
  • ns="Samples"
• ns="Chart"
• ns="MixesDB"
• ns="Help"

Switch order

You can also switch the order of the lists using sort="".

Sort title descending

Sort the title descending (Z-0), e.g. freshest mixes on top:

<favorites ns="Mixes" sort="descending" />

Sort by adding date

If you want the latest additions to your favorites on top, use e.g.:

<favorites sort="added" /> or <favorites ns="Category" sort="added" />

Set a limit

To display only a certain ammout of mixes you can add max="".

To display the last 25 mixes added to your favorites you would use:

<favorites ns="Mixes" sort="added" max="25" />

Highlight links to favorited pages

In your user preferences you can enable links to be highlighted if the target page is in your favorites.

This works everywhere: on category pages, on search results, on Main Page, on MixesDB:Explorer, etc.

By default a heart icon is added on the right: 2013-04-25 - Example Link - To A Favorited Page

The default CSS is:

#content .favLinkAfter:after { 
  content: url("http://static.mixesdb.com/images/icons/heart_10px.png");
  opacity: 0.7; /* adjust brightness of image 0.1 up to 1 */
  padding-left: 4px;
}

As described in Help:Users/User Styles you can use own CSS. So you can override the layout of the links in your monobook.css by copy-pasting the examples below.

You could simply replace the image URL with a completely different image of yours. More ideas:

2013-04-25 - Example Link − Use link color instead  Copy CSS

#content .favLinkAfter:after {
  content: "" !important;
  padding-left: 0 !important;
}
#content a.favLink {
  color: #f60;
  font-weight: bold !important;
}
#content a.favLink:visited {
  color: #f40 !important;
}

2013-04-25 - Example Link − Use text behind the link  Copy CSS

#content .favLinkAfter:after { 
  content: "(fav)" !important;
  color: #828282;
  opacity:1 !important;
  padding-left: 4px !important;
}

2013-04-25 - Example Link − Instead of text you could use HTML characters like ★ ✶ ♪ ♥ •  Copy CSS

The characters render more or less nicely, depending on your browser and font-size.

Note that this is blank text so you can use whatever color you like.

#content .favLinkAfter:after { 
  content: "★" !important;
  color: #8ce;
  padding-left: 3px !important;
}

2013-04-25 - Example Link − Use a background-color  Copy CSS

#content a.favLink {
  background-color:#e8ffe8 !important;
}
#content .favLinkAfter:after {
  content: "" !important;
  padding-left: 0 !important;
}

− Add an orange icon in the "unfavorite" tab on top  Copy CSS

li#ca-unfavorite a:after {
  content: url("http://static.mixesdb.com/images/icons/heart2_8px.png") !important;
  opacity:0.7 !important; /* adjust brightness of image 0.1 up to 1 */
  padding-left: 3px;
}