General Style Help (Fields)

Okay, gang. Attached is an image that appears in my Main CSS style menu.

There are two colors there that I've altered. One is black, the other is purple. The black is fine, I can see what that changes...

But I have looked and looked throughout all of my board that I can find, and I cannot seem to discover what the purple field changes.

Yes, I checked in the VB instructions and even used the color map and Main CSS tools guide, but I still cannot see what this field impacts.

Would someone kindly tell me what the field I have colored as purple pertains to?

Thanks in advance.

http://eternalkeep.com/public/vbh001.jpg

Nevermind. I figured it out by manipulating the pixels to exagerate it.

Hey Alastor

Have you seen the vB Documentation available online?

Look at the Styles & Templates Section on here http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ it should provide a valuable resource for you. Also look for the colour map reference. Very useful for what you are trying to accomplish.

Hey Alastor

Have you seen the vB Documentation available online?

Look at the Styles & Templates Section on here http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ it should provide a valuable resource for you. Also look for the colour map reference. Very useful for what you are trying to accomplish.

Yes, and I've used it with relatively good success for most things. However, it doesn't cover everything (at least not that I see). I do look through it to see if I can find out what a given field is for though. It's just that not all the answers are there.

Hey Alastor

Have you seen the vB Documentation available online?

Look at the Styles & Templates Section on here http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ it should provide a valuable resource for you. Also look for the colour map reference. Very useful for what you are trying to accomplish.

Yes, and I've used it with relatively good success for most things. However, it doesn't cover everything (at least not that I see). I do look through it to see if I can find out what a given field is for though. It's just that not all the answers are there.





For today, I have another question:

This link (eternalkeep.com/public/vbhelp.bmp) loads a BMP picture of the forums I am constructing. Looks good so far, eh?

However, where it says "The Pub" is considered First Alternating Color in the style manager. Where it says "Welcome Alastor" the cream color is Second Alternating Color.

I want both of these two areas to be the same color, but I don't want to affect the background colors of where it says "Bog of Eternal Stench" and "Never."

I want those to remain the color they are in the picture. But I want "Pub" and "Welcome" to match.

How do I do this?

Nevermind, I got it. I had to adjust the navbar breadcrumb directions in templates from alt1 color to alt2 in case anyone else wants to do the same thing.

I have a new one for you all. Yes, I looked in the guide, and may have missed it but I don't think so:

http://eternalkeep.com/public/h0001.JPG

See the area circled in red? Notice that it's a white background, but there's a cream colored bar in the middle of it. I want it all white.

The problem is I think it's connected to something else too - so that if I change it in my main CSS I believe it will change another portion of the site's colors too, and cause me a new problem in another area.

So my questions are:

1. What is this CSS field?
2. What other things on my boards are going to be affected if I change this CSS field?

Thank you in advance for any guidance you have to offer.

Alastor - go to your Main CSS for the style, and in the section that says Navbar, adjust the background color. This will fix that beige strip, and as far as I know, is the only thing affected by it.

Indeed, Peggy! Thank you! We have progress... Sort of.

Comparing the last picture to this new one, we can see that now the beige stripe is all one bar - which is progress. The problem is I want this entire block to be white.

http://eternalkeep.com/public/h0002.JPG

I'm hoping to get everything within that black outline where it says "The Pub > Site Info" and then Site Info below it to have a white background. So I now know that part of what I need to change is the navbra background.

I'm hoping to turn the entire area one color though instead of two. The same way the part that says, "Sticky: The News" looks.

That is all controlled by the alt 2 (or 2nd alternate color) in your main CSS. Whatever background color you have in that, is what that area will be.

That is all controlled by the alt 2 (or 2nd alternate color) in your main CSS. Whatever background color you have in that, is what that area will be.

And if I changed that, I'd change a lot of things, right?

And there's no way to dis-associate this region from the alt2 in the template?