Issues with CSS and What is What

[pdxbray]

Friends:

My template is based on classic. The font color that displays on the center section and prints the title of the category is a LIGHT GRAY color.

I want to change this, and I'm stumped where it is in the CSS.

This brings up a larger issue:

my classic based CSS files are

stylesheet_new.css and stylesheet_original.css

1. Which one changes the gray font color and where, and
2. What do both these sheets do? Is only the NEW called, or do they both do different things?

Confused, by grateful for your help.

T

[TinaS]

The Classic Template is a conversion of the 1.2 version of Zen's Classic Template.

The stylesheet_old and stylesheet_new are due to the fact that things changed with version 1.3.0 of Zen and new defining id's and classes were added (stylesheet_new f0r the most part). It is a table based template, that is really not recommended for your to use as a basis. I understand that the Future Zen template in the downloads area is a much better starting point if you want to customize a theme based on classic.

All that aside...

Both stylesheets are read, as are any that you might add. Zen will automatically find all stylesheets in the css and load them in the proper order ( see the note in the unzipped Zen file CSS README) for more info.

The font issue is more than likely the User Greeting ? If that's the case look for greetUser in the developers tool box in your admin - you will find the stylesheet to change it as well as all the files that call it ;)

Hope that helps

[pdxbray]

Thank you! Some of it helps, some of it frightens me :-)
Like most ignorant people, I'll ignore the part that frightens me and plod along with the template I have now!


But I do understand now that both css files are called. Thank you. greetUser doesn't seem to be the one, however. Any other idea as to what the CSS section might be that defines the font color for the category H1 when it prints in the center section of the page?

For example, in the category box I select my category (lets call it CHEESE) and click on the hyperlink. The center section of the page is refreshed and there is the content of category, In the upper left of the center section printing out in gray it reads CHEESE, just as you'd expect. I'm trying to change that color.


Thanks so much. I do appreciate your help.

T

[pdxbray]

I feel like a big boy.

I fixed the above problem! First, I instaled the Firefox developer plugin (newbies, you MUST get it.) Then I used the CSS View Style Information from the toolbar, and found the CSS line in the code. It is in the original stylesheet:

td.pageHeading, div.pageHeading, h1    (line 231)
{
    font-size: 16px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color:#9a9a9a;
    padding-top: 11px;
}

change that 9a9a9a to your color, and you're in business!

(NOTE: The browser displays the code color in RGB format. I know enough about html to look that up and get the web safe color to plugin.)

This is fun!

Thanks for all the help!

Tommy

[TinaS]

thanks for telling us !