| Re: CSS issues [message #4876 is a reply to message #4872] |
Mon, 12 August 2002 11:46  |
Ilia
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| esm2002 wrote on Sun, 11 August 2002 19:57 |
I'm not sure these are but or not but I did have some problems with css file while making some changes:
- Not all text has a class associated with it. Text without a class appeared black - which does not work on green background. I ended up adding a "text=" to the body tag in the header and ultimately into the body section of the css
- The smalltext class is used both for free-standing text and for text inside of a dropdown box. Thus, I could not set the background color of the dropdown box
- When I look a the message on the screen ( the one where the signature appears ), the message title is classless and thus uses "body" color.
- In the members screen the dropdown box has is classless. Thus, I am unable to set the font, bgcolor, etc. I think many of the dropdown boxes are that way. The join date could be centered ( this is just a preference of mine - yep, the date itself is left justified but since it takes up most of the cell, well, you get it. ). The entered data is left-justified but the find button if right justified which means I have to move the mouse all the way across the screen - fortunately for me, I'm an old "keyboard commander" so I can just hit the enter key. I have mentioned this before - this is supposed to be good design. I have seen it and have concluded it is "good design" since it forces the user to move the mouse over ads - IMHO. Finally, the tabs toward the top appear to be hard code with the color "#dee2eb". But maybe I was just tired by then. This is also on the Private message color. This made it difficult to read because of the color combination.
- On new messages the Browse button is classless.
- The search pages suffers the same fate as the find on the members page. Data entry on the left, button on the right. On this one the field prompts and entry boxes are widely separated. OK, I'll get off my soap box on the left-right separation.( I'd also like the bottons on the Post new message form, up by the "preview" area cause I spend more time up there than down where they are currently located )
For those of you have not messed much with the CSS stuff on FUDforum, you are going to be impressed with the overall work done here when you do. I was impressed. It is not easy to come up with an overall CSS plan that can easily accommodate different styles. The FUDforum folks did an absolutely outstanding job.
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FUDforum does not alter the default font colot, if you want to do that use the template editor to give a default color parameter to the text {} style sheet.
You can use template editor to make drop down use different css or specify a different style to use. Same applies to any other drop down.
If you look at majority of dialogs windows and wizards on most programs you will notice that buttons are 99% of the time alligned to the left of the screen. There is quite a bit of reasoning behind this, I am sure you can find it by doing a search on Google, I'd rather not waste the time typing it.
The file upload browse button CANNOT be controled by CSS, any CSS applied to the upload element apply ONLY to the textbox where the filename goes.
The colors for the tabs used in user control panel are not really hardcoded, since they are inside a template, hence easily changeable. I did not want to put them inside the css file, since those styles are only used in one place, so in interests of not bloating forum.css with mostly unneeded data those styles are not there.
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