Forum background different than site background

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:00 pm

I am attempting to edit the colors of the fisubice theme in RN21001. I have fumbled through figuring out how to change everything so far but the forums background to match the fisubice theme background color. I have searched for the last 2 hours and tried the suggestions found there without out any luck. More than likely it is just something simple I have overlooked but the longer I look at this, the worse it looks....lol.

I have tried to change the subsilver.css in the forums admin section with no change. I have tried editing the overall_header.tpl in the module/forums/subsilver folder. I have tried the forums.css file. Some of the changes I could see the background color correctly for a split second and then something over rode the settings back to the original fisubice background color.

I am finding just what a mess in general the coding for themes working with forums as described by fkelly in one of his posts ( can't remember for sure which one right now, but I remember him describing in the future possibly looking to straighten some of this mess out)..... Laughing

Any how, would someone please save my sanity by pointing me to the correct file for this version to where I can match the background of my forums page to the background color I have made in the theme itself.....I would greatly appreciate it, and my dogs would to since I take my frustrations out on them....(lol, j/k, I don't mistreat my dogs) I would provide a link to what I am working on, but I am working on it locally trying to get everything right before moving on to the production site. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:23 pm

I just did that yesterday. Change the background color of your forum in forums.css and overall_.header:

Quote:

The content of the posts (body of text) */
body{background:#your-color-here;color:#000000;font:12px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

In /themes/fisubice/forums/ are the important files:1.forums.css and 2. overall_header.tpl Smile

registered · Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:38 pm

Also, remember that whenever you change an external CSS file on your server you may not see the effects of the change until you clear your browser's cache. That has bitten me soooo many times. Smile

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:45 pm

thanks for the replies..... Smile

I had forgotten also Gremmie about that possibility....that would be so not funny if that is what it turns out to be..... ROTFL

Just gave it a shot and thanks Susann that took care of it. Apparently when I made the changes before I did just to one of the files at a time. The change would take place and then the other file would over write it apparently. It now looks as it should...... Laughing

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:16 pm

Yes, that is the "double head" problem again that currently exists with forums integration. Sad

registered · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:19 pm

You can actually move all of the style tags out of overall_header.tpl into forums.css and then remove the head and body tags from overall_header.tpl

The forums will still work fine.

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:58 pm

Yes I have done that on my own site. We just need to do it in RavenNuke next. It is complicated when you have to support many themes.

registered · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:18 pm

Gremmie, we should take a page out of 64bitguy's book on this with the CSS. For modules that want to use the module-specific style sheet, the module simply needs to define a constant. We could do the same here IF there is a need to modify a core RN file that is. If the changes are strictly forum files as mentioned, then I don't see a concern... But, I am NOT a theme expert and have not worked with a bunch of them to know whether we'd be causing more harm than good.

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:06 pm

Well all of my themes use the forums.css file for styling. I never include the styles or header tags in overall_header.tpl

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:23 pm

montego: Yes I'm sure we can hammer this out. We had some discussion on this in mantis, I will have to refresh my memory and read what we put in there.

Another (minor) problem is what do you put in simple_header.tpl? It should link to an external style sheet (forums.css). But which one? Smile

This is easy for my site where there is only one theme.

(simple_header.pl is used in an iframe (I think) to display previous posts when replying to a forum post)

mars: That's great but not all the themes in RavenNuke have a forums.css. So there is some work to be done to merge the styles in overall_header.tpl with a theme's style.css file. Or better yet, as we are talking about, creating a Forums.css file for each theme. We are thinking about adding support for individual modules to have their own Module.css file in the style directory.

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:08 pm

I would suggest doing a file check for themes/ThemeName/forums/forums.css
If it exists link it, if it doesn't then don't or link a default forums.css in the modules/forums folder.