black background problems

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toves
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black background problems

Post by toves »

Hi,

I have changed my blog to have a black background and white text, however, the shoutbox messages and comment input fields

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment

etc are remaining black instead of white - I can't find this in any of the style sheets. I am currently looking at style.css in the template folder I am using and I have these entries:

.serendipity_date {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: large;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0;
margin-top: 20px;
text-align: left;
}

.serendipity_commentsTitle {
font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
padding-right: 5px;
border-bottom: 2px solid #FF0000;

Obviously I am editing the wrong file but I can't find the right thing, can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Re: black background problems

Post by garvinhicking »

If you tell us your URL I can tell you the CSS to change.

You must look at the sidebar style, the shoutbox plugin has its own elements.

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Post by toves »

Thank you, its:

http://www.10yetis.co.uk/yetiblog/

Also, how can I change the headings "Yeti Blog
latest yeti goings on" to an image - is it possible?

I'd quite like to fit it into here somehow
http://www.10yetis.co.uk/newyeti/index2.html
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Post by garvinhicking »

Okay, that'S quite easy. Just edit your CSS style.css file and insert this:

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#serendipityRightSideBar , #serendipityLeftSideBar {
    color: white;
}
You can also put an image inside the header. For that you just need to edit the 'index.tpl' file of your selected template. If you don't have that file, copy it from templates/default/ into your directory.

The .tpl file can contain simple HTML markup, so you can insert that in the serendipity_banner place.

Regards,Garvin
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Post by toves »

wonderful, thank you
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