How to change the color of the forum text box

Client Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 157

Heres a picture of it www.unll.net/forum.jpg

You see that light gray box where the text go after its submitted, I would like to change the color there to green because the text is hard to read plus the text is right at the edge so it looks wierd. Thanks

registered · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:48 pm

themes/your theme/style/style.css

You will have to hunt it down in there and change the color.

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:27 pm

thanks atleast I have somewhere to aim

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 7:41 pm

wow its a jumgle out there and I'm lost. What I did was find the hex# for that color and searched the css but couldn't find it. So I checked all the background colors but none were it. Any ideas?

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:00 pm

css stuff has always been a trial and error thing for me.

you can always post yours here and I can take a look at it. The hex search works a lot of the time but not always especially if the background has shading to it.

I would do a backup of that file and just mess around and see what you find.

Also check in your themes/your theme/forums directory and see if there is a forums.css file in there to work on.

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:38 pm

LOL here it is : ) If you can't find it maybe if you can show me how to indent the forum text. If you notice in the picture the first letter is right on the left end you can barely read it.

A:link {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
A:visited {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
A:active {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
A:hover {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
BODY {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
CURSOR: default;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
BACKGROUND-color: #0f4822;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}

TEXTAREA {background:#003300;
color:#e9e7e7;
font:11px arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}
P {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #fbc102;
LINE-HEIGHT: 1.4;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
TABLE {
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}

TD.content {

FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
}

TD.extra {
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}
TD.info1 {
color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;
}
TD.extras {
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}

hr {
border-top: 1px solid #D5E0D5;
border-bottom: 1px solid #2B2B2B;
height: 2px;
width: 100%;
}

UL {
LIST-STYLE-TYPE: square
}
.center {
TEXT-ALIGN: center
}
.justify {
TEXT-ALIGN: justify
}
.right {
TEXT-ALIGN: right
}
H1 {
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
LETTER-SPACING: 0px;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}
.heading {
FONT-WEIGHT: bold;
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
FONT-FAMILY: arial;
LETTER-SPACING: 0px;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
}

SELECT {
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;
FONT-SIZE: 11px;
COLOR: #e9e7e7;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
}

/*Only IE will show for the scroller style */
BODY {
SCROLLBAR-BASE-color: #666866;
SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #B7BEB7;
}

/* This is the border line & background colour round the entire page */
.bodyline { BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;}
.tablein {color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;}
.tableout {background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;}
/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline { BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;}

/* Main table cell colours and backgrounds */
td.row1 {background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;}
td.row2 {background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;}
td.row3 {background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;}

td.rowpic {

background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}

th {
color: #e9e7e7; font-size: 11px; font-weight : bold;
height: 20px;
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;

}

td.cat, td.catHead, td.catSides, td.catLeft, td.catRight, td.catBottom {

background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; height: 28px;
}

/*
Setting additional nice inner borders for the main table cells.
The names indicate which sides the border will be on.
Don't worry if you don't understand this, just ignore it Smile

*/
td.cat, td.catHead, td.catBottom {
height: 29px;
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}
th.thHead, th.thSides, th.thTop, th.thLeft, th.thRight, th.thBottom, th.thCornerL, th.thCornerR {
font-weight: bold; background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; height: 28px; }
td.row3Right, td.spaceRow {
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;}

th.thHead, td.catHead { font-size: 11px; background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thSides, td.catSides, td.spaceRow { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thRight, td.catRight, td.row3Right { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thLeft, td.catLeft { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thBottom, td.catBottom { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thTop { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thCornerL { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }
th.thCornerR { background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid; }

/* The largest text used in the index page title and toptic title etc. */
.maintitle, h1, h2 {
font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "arial",Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : #e9e7e7;
}

/* General text */
.gen { font-size : 11px; }
.genmed { font-size : 11px; }
.gensmall { font-size : 10px; }
.gen, .genmed, .gensmall { color : #e9e7e7; }
a.gen, a.genmed, a.gensmall { color: #e9e7e7; text-decoration: none; }
a.gen:hover, a.genmed:hover, a.gensmall:hover { color: #e9e7e7; text-decoration: none; }

/* The register, login, search etc links at the top of the page */
.mainmenu { font-size : 11px; color : #e9e7e7;}
a.mainmenu { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7;}
a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7;}

/* Forum category titles */
.cattitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px ; letter-spacing: 0px; color : #e9e7e7}
a.cattitle { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7;}

/* Forum title: Text and link to the forums used in: index.php */
.forumlink { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.forumlink { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: NONE; color : #e9e7e7; }

/* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */
.nav { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #e9e7e7;}
a.nav { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.nav:hover { text-decoration: NONE; color : #e9e7e7;}

/* titles for the topics: could specify viewed link colour too */
.topictitle { font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.topictitle:link { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.topictitle:hover { text-decoration: NONE; color : #e9e7e7; }

/* Name of poster in viewmsg.php and viewtopic.php and other places */
.name { font-size : 11px; color : #e9e7e7;}

/* Location, number of posts, post date etc */
.postdetails { font-size : 10px; color : #e9e7e7; }

/* The content of the posts (body of text) */
.postbody { font-size : 11px;}
a.postlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #e9e7e7; }
a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: NONE; color : #e9e7e7}

.navlink { font-size : 11px;}
a.navlink:link { text-decoration: none; color : #000000; }
a.navlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : #000000; }
a.navlink:hover { text-decoration: NONE; color : #DDDDDD;}

/* Quote & Code blocks */
.code {
font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #A3A4A8;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;
}

.quote {
font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: #A3A4A8;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;
}

/* Copyright and bottom info */
.copyright { font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #e9e7e7; letter-spacing: 0px;}
a.copyright { color: #e9e7e7; text-decoration: none;}
a.copyright:hover { color: #e9e7e7; text-decoration: NONE;}

/* Form elements */
input {
color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640;
}

/* The text input fields background colour */
input.post, textarea.post, select {
background-color : #404640;
}

input { text-indent : 2px; }

/* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */
input.button, button.button {
color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}

/* The main submit button option */
input.mainoption {
color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}

/* None-bold submit button */
input.liteoption {
color : #e9e7e7;
font: normal 11px Verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #003300;
BORDER-RIGHT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-TOP: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
}

/* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover
help line. This is actually a text box, but if set to be the same
colour as the background no one will know Wink

*/
.helpline { BORDER-TOP: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BORDER-LEFT: #2B2B2B 1px solid;
BORDER-RIGHT: #D5E0D5 1px solid;
BACKGROUND: #404640; }

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:49 am

Code:

TABLE {


FONT-SIZE: 11px;


COLOR: #e9e7e7;


FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;


TEXT-DECORATION: none;


}





TD.content {





FONT-SIZE: 11px;


COLOR: #e9e7e7;


TEXT-DECORATION: none;


FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;


}

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:50 am

I think #e9e7e7 is the color you need to change.

Back stuff up! Smile

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:15 am

Nope I changed the color in both thing and that didn't do anything.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:04 am

So anymore help or am I on my own for this one?

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:52 pm

I was wondering why that text box is so small (look in the pic), it should be as big as the cell but its not. If you can't find the color maybe you can help me make that bigger

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:34 am

Can someone look into this problem for me its a really big deal to me because people are starting to come to my site plz someone. I really need to change the color in that box to green so people can read the text.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:53 pm

How bout a reply saying "no, I don't have any f'in idea how to fix this" so I can quit lounging around waiting for the answer.

Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:32 pm

nm i fixed it... for those with those that have the same problem what I did was took the viewtopic_body.tpl from a working theme and stuck it in my current theme.