[Forum] How do you remove underline on category links???

[swisscotton]

I am trying to remove the underline from the category links but I can’t see how via the StyleVars and there is no save button in the Main CSS!! I am using VB 4.

[Steve Machol]

Since they are links, there is no setting to do that. This is going to require some custom CSS. Unfortunately I do not have specific instructions for doing that, but you can try asking at the vB mod site: www.vbulletin.org

[swisscotton]

Hi Steve

I can code CSS I would just need to know where :-)

[TWood]

I was looking for the same setting for the Tags search results, and found that the bold and underline are hard-coded into the .php files.

For example, I found this in vb/search/criteria.php at line 1048:

$this->display_strings['tag'] = "$vbphrase[tag]: <b><u>" .
$tag->fetch_field('tagtext') . "$syn_text</u></b>";

and changed it to:

$this->display_strings['tag'] = "" .
$tag->fetch_field('tagtext') . "$syn_text";

That gets rid of the word "Tag:" ($vbphrase[tag]) that precedes the tag search term, and also removes the bold and underline.

There's probably a place somewhere that is inserting this into categories too. You might want to search on <u><b> in the files and see what comes up.

Remnants from the pre-CSS days?

[HolyKiller]

Do following steps

1) Disable "underline" for links

Go to Styles & templates -> Style Manager -> Style Vars

find Link Text Decoration and set "None" to "YES", and "NO" for the rest. So it will be like:

None - Yes
Underline - No
Overline - No
Line Through - No
blink - No

Hit Save

Do the same for Link Hover Text Decoration


2) Now add "underline" only for hyperlinks in posts

Go to Styles & templates -> Style Manager -> Edit Templates

find and edit additional.css

add this:

.postcontent a {
        text-decoration: underline;
}

.postcontent a:hover {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: orange;
}

Save

Enjoy

[swisscotton]

That's the problem. The additional CSS is in Main CSS and it doesn't have a save button

[swisscotton]

Main CSS

"This CSS file is obsolete and is available here for reference purposes only."

Is there another way of editing it?

[Steve Machol]

You can try the additional.css template for that.

[TWood]

Expand the CSS Templates (double click on it) in the Edit Templates window:



If you don't know what the style is named, load Firebug* into Firefox and inspect the page, then search in templates for the style. It's probably in more than one template.

*Firebug is a very valuable add-on to Firefox that will show you how a web page is constructed, including the CSS styles.

[baerwurz]

2) Now add "underline" only for hyperlinks in posts

Go to Styles & templates -> Style Manager -> Edit Templates

find and edit additional.css

add this:

.postcontent a {
        text-decoration: underline;
}

.postcontent a:hover {
        text-decoration: underline;
        color: orange;
}

How to do the same for the articles in CMS?

.articlecontent a does not work?

Edit:

to easy, .article does work. ;-)

[swisscotton]

Thank you.