Sidebox Header - Change Font Style

[dkcoone]

Hi, I am a total n00bie to Zen, but love what I see so far.

However, I have a problem I hope someone can help me with.

I am modifying a template default CSS for my store. Most of it has gone well so far, and about ready to add products and go live. However, I noticed that for some reason the "Specials" sidebox in the right column, the header font color got changed from white to a dark blue, making it impossible to see against the header background color of blue. THe hoover color of red still works fine, and all the other sidebox headers have retained their white font color, only this one has changed. I want to change it back to white, to match the other sideboxes, and to make it readable! But I can not figure out where it needs to be changed or how.

Can someone please help?

http://www.baby-bee.biz/Zencart/index.php

[Sketchy]

^ Appears that you have it sorted as the "Specials" heading appears white in IE6, IE7, and FF.

[dkcoone]

Thanks,

Not sure what happened, was "blued" out on my laptop lastnight and this morning, but, you are right, now it is fine on wife's desktop and my laptop.

Thanks for the quick response! ZenCart is soooooooooo much easier than osC, i spent days on that and never got as far as I have with Zen in just a few hours!

[Sketchy]

Yeah, computers and browsers can act funny at odd times.

I'm thinking maybe your occurrence was because of temporary files harvested from the browser while adjusting the colors in the stylesheet. Sometimes, you have to flush the temp files for the browser to react. Especially when overwriting image files, I know Firefox takes a bit to acknowledge the new file.

Yesterday, my "Enter" key stopped working into the wee hours here in the forum. I had to type out responses on Notepad to obtain paragraph breaks and then copy/paste them into the forum input box. Of course, all is well today.

[gjh42]

Hey, Sketchy! Good to see you back! I was thinking just a few days ago that I hadn't seen you posting in a long time.

[Sketchy]

^ Howdy to you too! Yeah, it sure has been awhile. I guess i just can't stay away, but I'm limiting my spare time investments. My mom's out of town, so no dinner today and I have the whole evening to burn some time.

But, I'm back and I already found a likely receiver for a free template design due to boredom today. It's my addiction, I can't fight it. I'll have to upload the brand new Zen onto my test server account, many thanks to the hoster for not locking me out of the C/P due to not logging in every month as the stipulations were.

[gjh42]

Yep, tell me about addictions... :)

[all4coffee]

How can i remove 'Categories' or another sidebox header and the placeholder ? I know that the topic is being addressed on this forum in many places but it seems to me that answers are very fragmented and not complete (for less experienced like myself...) If you could post a complete instruction, based on removing i.e. a Banner Sidebox Header along with its placeholder I think it would be very helpful to many of us... I have spent few hours reading existing posts on this topic and trying stuff but must give up and ask for detailed help (which files need to be changed, changed how and where)

This is a cry for help.

[gjh42]

The easiest way to do this is with your /includes/templates/your_template/css/stylesheet.css.

Find the id of the desired sidebox heading and set it to not display, e.g. add a new declaration to your stylesheet

#categoriesHeading {
    display: none;
    }

which will completely disable the categories heading text and its background block.

The lowest-tech way to find the id is with View Source:

<h3 class="leftBoxHeading" id="categoriesHeading">Categories</h3>

A very efficient way is with the Firefox Web Developer extension (download free from mozilla) and its Information > Display Element Information button.