Status Font Color

Hey everyone

I am either having a blonde moment or something, not sure what - but I am trying to change the font colour in the status update area, when I change it, it also changes my button text colour too. I have changed the css in forms_adv.css and general.css, but it seems that the button text and the text for the status update are tied in together (if so this is daft!)

any help would be appreciated cause the font colour I am using for my buttons is white, so if someone changes their status, they can't see what they are writing grrrr...

Cheers!

anyone?

Which status text?

hehe.. You know.. that stuff they type in that box thingy that says their status whatcha-ma-callits..Remember?

Chris

I honestly don't, I'll need a picture as I'm having brain fart....Do you mean that text in the blurb next to their name on hte profile page?

Ok. .Sorry, I'll stop. From your profile page, there is a "Status" that display at the top (right next to your avatar and name). You can click in that box and update your current status messages. You can also do this from the member bar to the right of your Presence status.

Looking... I dont have firebug here at work..UGH

Chris

Lol sorry - brain farting here too lol...I've circled the places, if I turn the text to white for the button, it also changes to white in the status message area too :(

Found it.

Simply open templates/base/css/common.css and find

#StatusMessage {

padding-left:10px;

text-transform:none;

}

add under the text-transform  color: #value;    save, upload, open Admin Home and click on clear js/css.  Refresh your page (hard refresh press ctrl+f5) and you will see change.

cheers chris - I have firebug and I have the web developer tool too - neither of them are finding the right place to change them, I've tried to code the css so that the status message text field shows blue text when  you type and the button turns white - but it just don't seem to work :(

cheers

Steve

templates>base>css>common.css

around line 896

#StatusMessage {

padding-left:10px;

text-transform:none;

color: #FC6600;

}

Just a thought here... what if someone customizes their profile page and chooses the color "blue" as the background? They will never see their status :)

Chris

Well that's different than what I pasted, my change will change the text color within the status message box to a different color.  On that question I'm not sure.

Thanks guys i'll give that a try, it seems that firebug and web-developer were pointing me to the wrong css files grrrr!

Cheers
Steve

Didn't work :( cheers for the help though guys...I'll keep tinkering with the css and hopefully it'll work eventually lol...

steve

You may need to clear your cache AngelusUK. Probably want to do this via FTP and clear the /cache (except for .htaccess) and the /cache_public directories.

Chris

found it lol my button text is now white and the status message input text is blue

if anyone else has this poblem they need to go to forms_adv.css

look for this code

.button_wrapper input.form_input_button,
.button_wrapper input.form_input_submit,
.button_wrapper input.form_input_reset
{
background-image: none;
width: auto;
/*background-color: transparent;*/
}

and add the color: #fff; to it

I was changing aanother part of the same css file which was turning other text white that was already on a white background...

thanks for all the help tho guys!

So I take it the status message works for you? I t doesn't work at all for many of us... Any idea why?

AngelusUK when u changed the code r members allowed to change their color for the text status different so it won't blend with background or were u able to set the font to one specific color and that's it?