Style Sheet Problems..

[Punt]

Howdy all,

I recently installed YaBB SE on my site, and I have the same general setup as found here, header across the top, and a menu on the left.

My problem is this: The menu on the left has a black background.  The links are orange, the hover is white, the visited is brown.

I have YaBB SE set up on a light grey backgrounds.  So when I mouseover a link on the board, it shows up white, and is very hard to read. I am linking to an external style sheet in my template.php, so everything is in the same file. I've tried adding a new class, and then going into the template and adding class="newclass" in the TD tags of the tables, but it's not working at all.

Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-Punt

[J_Peterson]

Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Post in the Graphics and Templates board, since the possibility of getting an answer is much higher there.

[Punt]

I will do that. Thanks for the suggestion

[[Unknown]]

*Points at secret project....*

-[Unknown]

[Punt]

*arg*

I've been banging my head about this for quite some time now. Any idea when your secret project might not be so secret anymore?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

when the 35% becomes 100%

it'd be better too if u provide us with a link

[Peter Duggan]

I've tried adding a new class, and then going into the template and adding class="newclass" in the TD tags of the tables, but it's not working at all.

Did you do this right?

The template uses:

a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:active

and

.nav:link
.nav:visited
.nav:hover
.nav:active

The class applies to the anchor, *not* the TD, so you should have (for example) <a class="nav">, not <td class="nav">.

If you add:

.menu:link
.menu:visited
.menu:hover
.menu:active

and specify <a class="menu"> for the menu anchors, all should be well!

[Punt]

Just to make sure I have this right (And I really appreciate the time you've taken on this), I put the <a class="menu"> around where I want  this to take effect in my template, correct? So if I want the links in my <yabb main> area to have the colors set in the .menu part of my css, I put <a class="menu"><yabb main></a>??

Is that correct? Doesn't seem to be.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Oh! and the link suggested by spaceman spiff...

http://www.harleyroads.com/forums

[Spaceman-Spiff]

best to do it is not changing the a tag, there will be lots to edit in Subs.php
it's better to do this:
<div class="menu"><yabb menu></div>
and add this in css:
.menu a:link
.menu a:visited
.menu a:hover
.menu a:active

[Peter Duggan]

Just to make sure I have this right (And I really appreciate the time you've taken on this), I put the <a class="menu"> around where I want  this to take effect in my template, correct? So if I want the links in my <yabb main> area to have the colors set in the .menu part of my css, I put <a class="menu"><yabb main></a>??

Is that correct? Doesn't seem to be.

To be fair, you didn't say you wanted to change the link colours in <yabb main>! If you did, the 'a' and '.nav' classes should have been all you needed. What I thought you wanted to do was to maintain whatever colours you had already set up for the YaBB SE board, but add a sidebar menu with different link colours to the template. In which case, the code for the menu would have been included in addition to the existing YaBB content as a div (as Spaceman-Spiff suggests, but probably containing your menu rather than <yabb main>) or (less tidily) with each link qualified like <a class="menu" href="URL">link</a>!

If that's still not clear enough, please get back to us!

[Punt]

Thanks both for your reply.

Peter, I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. What I want to accomplish is basically the opposite of what you thought. I already have a menu on the left side with link, hover, and visited colors specified. I want to specify a different set of colors for the link hover and visited links inside the forum itself.

I tried as Spiff suggested and wrapped the <yabb main> tag in a <div class="menu"> tag, but that, unfortunatly, did not work.

I'm really stumped by this, and appreciate all your help (both of you). Unfortunatly, in doing this, I fubar'd my general schema somewho, so now I have big black bars, and tables all out of whack. I think I have to start from page one again. *sigh*'

Thanks again guys!

-punt

[Punt]

Success!

I did as Peter suggested and simply put a new class onto my menu bar on the left and left the original classes for YaBB.

Thanks a ton for all your help guys, it was very much appreciated.