Making different categories have different colours/headers/side boxes etc

[SarahL]

quite agree :nod: there is a simpler way to do it BUT looking over the forums this is one question that gets asked an awful lot and no one seemed to have a conclusive answer or "how to" and personally the CSS for the v1.3 is well... lets just say more complicated than I felt it should be, especially for a IE/FF/NS compliant. So I felt that because I needed something now that I would post what I did - and then if at the end I helped people or came up with a better solution then perfect

[DrByte]

Nothing wrong with that ;)
Thanks for the detailed post. The concept will be helpful to folks wanting to understand what needs to be done.
perhaps someone will document the process using a focus on css

[SarahL]

when I am not up against a deadline I will see if I can figure the CSS side of things out, as I must admit I am finding the newer version harder to customise completely than the other table layout. But I know that is just what I know and what I am used too ultimatly its better I just need to bring my brain up to speed with it! and doing things like this mean I can do it this way then few weeks/months later figure out the proper way ;)