In 2006 we imported this from www.gnu.org to align our appearance with the one there. Alas, that site kept evolving (and inconsistently so), and in fact removed this style, and I'll be trying to clean this up now.
This is the first step, removing a number of unused styles. Applied. Gerald Index: gnu.css =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gnu.css,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 gnu.css --- gnu.css 21 Sep 2006 14:17:36 -0000 1.3 +++ gnu.css 3 Apr 2011 13:17:15 -0000 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* gnu.css -- css stylesheet used on www.gnu.org -Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation +Copyright (C) 2006, 2011 Free Software Foundation Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation @@ -85,13 +85,6 @@ font-size: smaller; } -.translations { - background-color: transparent; - color: black; - font-family: serif; - font-size: smaller; -} - .fsflink { font-size: smaller; font-family: monospace; @@ -116,20 +109,6 @@ padding-bottom: 5px; } -.trans { - font-size: smaller; - color : #000000; - border-left: #3366cc thin solid; - padding-left: 20px; -} - -.trans_rtl { - font-size: smaller; - color : #000000; - border-right: #3366cc thin solid; - padding-right: 20px; -} - img { border: none 0; } @@ -156,11 +135,6 @@ } -.footnoteref { - font-size: smaller; - vertical-align: text-top; -} - /* Please don't remove -- "ss" class is used in Polish pages */ .ss > li, .ss > dt { margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom:0.2em; } .ss >li > p, .ss > dd > p { margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom:0; }