Sizing question - chapter dividers

[mekare]

Hey everyone, has anyone ever done chapter dividers for fic on AO3? Can you tell me the breadth in pixels? I have them as a digital file but don't know how to size them.

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[goss]

Not sure if there's any set dimension, but the bottom of this art masterpost has a set of three dividers I made for a Merlin/Arthur Big Bang fic some time back.

The divider size I went with was a height of 50 pixels and a length of 432 pixels.

[mekare]

Thanks for the link to that lovely Merlin art! I‘ll try put that size and will check how they look.

[alias_sqbr]

Unfortunately it depends on the person's resolution. I find 600 pixels fills my low-ish resolution screen a moderate amount when I post images, so the suggested 400ish pixels sounds like a good amount.

If you put center tags around them they'll always sit in the centre regardless of size.

[mekare]

Ah that sounds good then.

[mific]

I'm sure there's no rule or usual set amount for these. They just need to be reasonably small to load fast and not be too dominant. I'd say 300-400px width and making them half as high as wide would be fine. And unless you're supplying the link plus html embedding code, you can't cause them to be centered - the writer would have to do that. But I do sometimes email my writers the embedding code if the writer's not as used to posting on AO3 for example. Do you have that template or would it be useful?

[mekare]

That template would be very useful! I‘ll check in with my writer on if they want it but it would definitley be useful to have for the future.

[mific]

Ok. I think I can’t put html code in a comment, it’ll turn it into a link. May have to message you.

Yeah, that failed. So the code is here, just change all parentheses into the usual code brackets like > for ) and < for (
To set the pic size just put the width pixels in, like width=“800” or whatever.

(p align="center")(img src="Url of pic" alt="Alt text here" width="xxx"/>)(/p)