Actually, background-color:none should work just fine.
Whoa. Good myth.
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§ ita § - Apr 09, 2009 9:06:54 am PDT #2805 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Apr 09, 2009 9:18:25 am PDT #2806 of 4673
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've decided that the breadcrumbs on the left are distracting and have moved them back to just above the other navigation elements. In case anyone was still following along.
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2009 10:24:36 am PDT #2807 of 4673
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You might need to refresh a few times for it to take.
True! It looks fine now.
SailAweigh - Apr 09, 2009 12:23:30 pm PDT #2808 of 4673
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Couple of questions:
1) Is there a way to get rid of the white box background behind the Message Center logo?
2) Is there a way to change the color of the red bar that highlights "Discussion Threads", "Site Admin", etc?
I've been perusing the CSS that was posted ages ago, so we could make our own changes and while I've been able to figure out a few of them (hello a:hover!), there's still some that I'm not able to parse out. I've picked up an instruction book for CSS, but it's slow going. Help?
amych - Apr 09, 2009 12:30:35 pm PDT #2809 of 4673
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
1) Is there a way to get rid of the white box background behind the Message Center logo?
The background on the image is white, not transparent, so it would have to be replaced with a whole new image -- I remember but am too lazy to Nilly right now that it didn't look right when either Jon or ita tried a transparent version?
Anyway, +1 to the request.
2) Is there a way to change the color of the red bar that highlights "Discussion Threads", "Site Admin", etc?
If I'm reading it right, that's under .section-header. So you'd do
.section-header {background-color:#123456;}
with the color code of your choice. (Do you need a reference for colors? Or is that covered in your book?)
SailAweigh - Apr 09, 2009 12:34:51 pm PDT #2810 of 4673
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The background on the image is white, not transparent, so it would have to be replaced with a whole new image
That's what I thought I remembered, but I was hoping I could change it. I've got a pale purple background and it just kind of jumps off the page at me in a not so happy way.
Do you need a reference for colors?
Nah, I look at the Paint rbg and convert to the hex. Why, I'm not sure, but that's what I end up doing. (I think it's for the mental excersize, the bane of unemployment.) I just couldn't break out what element was controlling it. There's so many header-this and header-that, it's very confusing!
Jon B. - Apr 09, 2009 12:40:45 pm PDT #2811 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
If we made the image transparent, it would still look like crap with a purple background. A different sort of crap, but crap nonetheless.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2009 12:43:34 pm PDT #2812 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can look at the transparent title graphics on b.net. I think they look worse than the opaque ones on a wider range of backgrounds.
#subtext img { border:2px solid black } will give it a black border which might make it look less weird.
SailAweigh - Apr 09, 2009 12:45:12 pm PDT #2813 of 4673
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I'll give that a try, ita. I think it's the lack of border that just makes it look wrong.
Ginger - Apr 09, 2009 12:46:26 pm PDT #2814 of 4673
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
One useful thing is the Firebug extension on Firefox, which lets you see the style and html for each page you're on. I spent a lot of my time learning html and the css by looking at View Source on many, many pages, and Firebug makes it a lot easier to see how it works.
Don't think you're alone in being frustrated. I've been writing css for some years, and I'm still often frustrated. It's as far away from intuitive as you can get.
I haven't fiddled much with the B.org style because it seems too much like work.