I want to change the background of the toolbars on forumdisplay and showthread. These are the toolbars that have
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Before Gold, the following was fairly simple to do (read: consistent and somewhat logical). In Gold, however, it goes like this.....
The toolbar on forumdisplay has no stylevar associated with it (as it did pre-Gold), and trying to find anywhere in the templates that controls the background of that specific toolbar is 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back. In the end I decided to simply add my own css statement in the forumdisplay.css template, like this:
Find:
Add Below:
That took care of the toolbar on forumdisplay. I then moved to showthread and expected to do the same thing for that template (showthread.css), but wait! Look! showthread.css already has it there! I was very pleased to see that, but that pleasure was clipped by the question of
"Why didn't they put it in the other template????"
Anyway, just wanted to rant a little, with the secondary hope that someone important enough will happen to read this and know what to do. Now back to my customization project.....
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and
Thread Tools | Administrative | Search Thread | Rate This Thread | Display | Inline Mod.
Before Gold, the following was fairly simple to do (read: consistent and somewhat logical). In Gold, however, it goes like this.....
The toolbar on forumdisplay has no stylevar associated with it (as it did pre-Gold), and trying to find anywhere in the templates that controls the background of that specific toolbar is 30 minutes of my life I'll never get back. In the end I decided to simply add my own css statement in the forumdisplay.css template, like this:
Find:
Code:
.above_threadlist_controls div {
Code:
background: {vb:stylevar blockhead_background.backgroundColor} {vb:stylevar blockhead_background.backgroundImage} repeat-x top {vb:stylevar left};
"Why didn't they put it in the other template????"
Anyway, just wanted to rant a little, with the secondary hope that someone important enough will happen to read this and know what to do. Now back to my customization project.....
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