CSS Sideboxes - Editing is not working

[saknikte]

Hi everyone,

I have been looking for the answer to this question and I still cant seem to find it.
How in the world can someone change the title of the sideboxes and actually make it show up.

The threads I read said to change the lines:

.leftbox, .rightbox, .centerbox, .singlebox {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #353B91;
font-size: 11px;
background: #ffffff;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}

But I don't even have those lines in my css...

Other people talk about overriding something and I have no clue...

Then I tried making a change on:

h3.leftBoxHeading, h3.leftBoxHeading a {
font-size: 1em;
color: #ffffff;
}

But it just didn't show a single change on the site...




Any leads to helpful threads or any advice would be truly appreciated.

[TinaS]

Are you trying to change the actual title text that itt displays or are you looking to change the "look" of the side box where the title appears ?

Which template are you using ?

Can you supply a URL so that we may better help you ?

[saknikte]

Hi, thanks for your reply.

I'm trying to change the font color of the side boxes because the image background is white like and the font is also white and for that reason can't be read.

Example: Font color for the title that says: Categories

The template I'm using is a copy of the classic template I believe

[TinaS]

This is in the stylesheet_new file :

/*h3.rightBoxHeading, h3.rightBoxHeading a {
font-size: 1.1em;
color: #FFFF00;
}*/

/*.rightBoxHeading {
margin: 0em;
background-color: #663366;
padding: 0.2em 0em;
}*/

h3.leftBoxHeading a:hover {
color: #FFFF33;
text-decoration: none;
}
h3.rightBoxHeading a:hover {
color: #FF0000;
text-decoration: none;
}


Mind you some of those are commented out and you might look in stylesheet_original as well - but those are the specific defines that control font color on the headings.

Remember to use your over rides so that all your hard work doesn't get lost in upgrades, etc ;)

Hope that helps

[saknikte]

Hey, I tried that again and it still doesn't show any changes on the site... would there be a reason why although changes are made in the css it doesn't show up at all on the site?

[TinaS]

Can you please give me a URL to look at - maybe I can help find what's happening

[saknikte]

http://www.shopniza.com/sell

Sure :)

[TinaS]

The stylesheet being called - when using firefox - is found at :
/sell/includes/templates/my_template/css/stylesheet.css

is that the one that you are editing ?

h3.leftBoxHeading, h3.leftBoxHeading a {
font-size: 1em;
color: #ffffff;
}

this is still white - which is the headers on your side boxes is.

[saknikte]

hmmm that's weird.

I had changed exactly that to #000000 but it didn't do anything before and after you checked it, I edited it and changed it too but it doesnt seem to work either.

[TinaS]

I just don't see why it's not working - are you over writing the css when you upload it?

Try adding .old at the end of the stylesheet so that it becomes stylesheet.css.old (on the server) so that when you upload your changed one it doesn't over write - lets see if something is wrong with the over write (like file permissions or something).