[Plugin: MailChimp List Subscribe Form] Turning off styling

There is already an option to turn off custom styling. That disables most of the css – including that which affects div.mc_custom_border_hdr and it’s previous code. With that turned off, the only styling we add is what seems to be essential – colors for response messages and basic positioning of elements.

I strongly urge you to remove the styling for the “basic positioning of elements” because you’ve added padding, width and margin attributes on many of the elements, which are causing me a headache and I can’t override them without !important which I hate to do. The last version of the plugin looked good on my site, now you’ve seemingly randomly forced the form to have a 5px padding, and each input has a 75% width and some random margins… is that stuff necessary? Now my form is off to the side and down by 5 px instead of being flush, and the inputs only take up 3/4 of the width of the widget instead of the full width which looks awful. Am I missing something here or is the only way to override that to do the !important calls for the attributes I want to override?

We’ve slowly been working towards that, but have also taken steps back.

The problem we have is balancing between people who can actually style things and those who can’t (who appear to be the vast majority). More than likely we’ll have to look at being much more blunt with basic styles included when styling is turned off.

I’ll go ahead and warn you – v1.1.14 will be available shortly and most or all of the padding and margins have been removed. The widths we have set now are there to deal with themes that use floats by default.

If/when you upgrade, I’d be interest in any feedback.

Thanks for the update, Jesse.

Yeah, it would be better if the “turn off styling” option fully removed all styling rather than just some. I spent about 15 hours just trying to figure out why it wasn’t working before I realized I had to resort to !important ??