Posted on: 03/16/10 01:29am
By: TennSeven
I am having a hard time figuring out how to change the look of a few of my pages. I am using a custom theme that has a black background, but all of the story blocks, left blocks, etc. have white backgrounds with black text. This is working fine except when I go into certain administration pages, like "submissions", I am getting a black background with black text, which of course makes it pretty hard to read. I am just wondering how I can tell the submissions moderation page and a few others to use blocks with white backgrounds, while keeping everything else the same?
From looking through the code it looks like there is some mechanism I can use to do this, but I cannot for the life of me figure it out (I am still learning a lot of this stuff). Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
TennSeven
Re: How to change the blocks in certain admin sections only?
Posted on: 03/16/10 02:50am
By: ::Ben
Could be a ccs issue (changes can be made in your the layout/yourtheme/style.css) or a hard coded color.
Can you provide us a link?
::Ben
Re: How to change the blocks in certain admin sections only?
Posted on: 03/17/10 08:39am
By: TennSeven
Ben:
Sure, my URL is
www.technology-law-online.com[*1] . If you click on "Sign up as New User," that white box containing the instructions and the form is what I am trying to accomplish. After signing up as a new user, log in and click "My Account." Take a look at any of the tabs except "Preview" (e.g., "Username & Password," "About You," etc.) and you will see that they all have black text on black background. I want to change the black blocks to white blocks so they will look more like the homepage, or the page where you enter your username and password.
Re: How to change the blocks in certain admin sections only?
Posted on: 03/17/10 09:21am
By: ::Ben
After signing up as a new user, log in and click "My Account." Take a look at any of the tabs except "Preview" (e.g., "Username & Password," "About You," etc.) and you will see that they all have black text on black background.
Done. But text is black on grey background. Everything ok.
::Ben
Re: How to change the blocks in certain admin sections only?
Posted on: 03/17/10 12:29pm
By: TennSeven
Yes, not too long after I posted the instructions, I did some more poking around and found that those blocks are "jsenabled_show" and "jsenabled_hide." A few changes to the stylesheet and they are fine for now.
I am still having similar issues in the administration menus. I am looking now I think for a block "ce_0" (adding a background color for this class in the regular style.css didn't change anything), but I don't think it should be too hard to track down.
Thank you again everyone for the excellent help.