[support] Help greatly needed (and appreciated!) - they should be the same! - why aren't they the same?!

[Tom Lucas]

Thanks for filling in the sorely lacking details in my response!  ;) Much
better now. Thanks for taking the time Brian

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Brian Choc <bchoc at t4tcolorado.org> wrote:

> I'll expand on this a little bit.
>
> Here's the code from your style.css file which established the header
> styles:
>
> #sidebar-right h2, h2.heading, .block h2{
> 	background:#027ac6;
> 	color:#ffffff;
>         ...
> }
>
> This section, among other things, sets the background to blue and the H2
> text to white.  However, as Tom points out, this is being overriden by the
> anchor tag surrounding your titles, which brings in this style:
>
> a:link, a:visited {
>   color: #027AC6;
>   text-decoration: none;
> }
>
> and also
>
> a:hover {
>   color: #0062A0;
>   text-decoration: underline;
> }
>
> So you will probably want to adjust the colors for the hover color as well,
> but of course only for the specific situations where this blue-on-blue comes
> up.  If you're not familiar with the Firebug add-on for Firefox, you should
> look into it as it's a great way to find out things like "where is that
> color coming from?"  I'm not sure where your comfort with CSS is so I'll
> just sort of stop here on the CSS stuff.
>
> One other thing though: you're using the Garland theme and these styles are
> coming from the /themes/garland/style.css file.  If you'll be doing any
> substantial changes, you may want to look into setting up a sub-theme rather
> than modifying the included style.css file because any installing a new
> version of Drupal will overwrite your changes.  If it's just going to be one
> or two little things (like this color change), that's probably not
> necessary.  However, you will want to make sure you note your changes so you
> can recreate them later when an upgrade is done.
>
> Hope that helps, too,
> Brian
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tom Lucas <tech4him at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good news!  ;o) Looks like just a styling issue. The headlines are there
>> but styling like your generic links. i.e. both the link text color and the
>> block color are the same.
>>
>> You'll want to add something like this to your CSS. I'm not a CSS guy so
>> I'm only giving a place to start.
>>
>> .view-content .view-content-News-only-News-Feed a
>> {
>> color:#FFFFFF;
>> }
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM, spaceboy_psy <sp_spaceboy at msn.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello there!
>>>
>>> I'm having an annoying problem with a News Feed. Long story short, I'm
>>> very
>>> new to Drupal, trying to help sort out this website that was created by
>>> someone else a few years ago, so I apologise if I don't give all the
>>> pertinent info straight away, I'll do my best but please ask if more
>>> details
>>> are needed! It's for Edinburgh's Peace & Justice Centre, so it's helping
>>> a
>>> good cause. I just don't know what to do in this situation...
>>>
>>> If you could have a look at this page:
>>>
>>> http://www.peaceandjustice.org.uk/
>>>
>>> you'll see the Recent Features feed, on the right panel.
>>>
>>> And here:
>>>
>>> http://www.peaceandjustice.org.uk/news
>>>
>>> you'll see the Our News feed on the right panel.
>>>
>>> Previously, they were the exact same feed. I succeeded in creating a new
>>> feed for the News page which would only show News items, and editting the
>>> front page feed to only show Features and Analysis. BUT, although as far
>>> as
>>> I can tell I made the News feed to be exactly the same as the frontpage
>>> feed, except for the filter, as you will have noticed the headings for
>>> each
>>> item are different and you can't read the headings on the News page until
>>> you hold the mouse over them or Select All text.
>>>
>>> So I want the appearance of the news feed to be the same as the Recent
>>> Features feed on the front page. But after going through all the
>>> Administer
>>> menus several times the only thing I can find that might help is to edit
>>> the
>>> colours in the Garland Theme somehow, but I'm reluctant to do this incase
>>> it
>>> makes some big changes elsewhere - particularly worried I do something
>>> that's hard to turn back, like what I've done on the News feed! I'm
>>> really
>>> hoping there's a really obvious solution to this that someone will
>>> recognise
>>> immediately, that would be just fab.
>>>
>>> As I said, please ask for more info if it's necessary, need to get this
>>> fixed soon as possible so people can read the news headlines! ^_^
>>>
>>> Many many thanks
>>>
>>> Simon
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