How can I decrease the size of the answer and voting boxes?

Question

How can I decrease the large size or height of the answer and voting boxes that appear on the left side of the screen. I would like to make them smaller, like the size that they are on OSQA - http://meta.osqa.net/questions/ ?

Answer 1

In your stylesheet you'll want to look for these styles and change any or all of them:

.qa-voting and .qa-a-count - reduce the padding on top & bottom, and change the colors if need be.

.qa-vote-buttons - reduce the width and/or padding.

.qa-netvote-count - reduce the width.

.qa-netvote-count-data and .qa-a-count-data - reduce the font size.

Comments

I tried that and it did not work correctly. Maybe someone has a theme with shorter boxes, the width is fine? There seems to be a lot of wasted space consumed by the large vote and answer boxes.