Question

Changing background color on just the modules, themes and block list pages

Asked by: bogorman

Am new to Drupal.

I have, however, managed to create a 3 column Zen sub-theme.

I have changed the background to black and text color to yellow/gold for the content block of all my pages by specifying

background-color: #000;
color: #ffe5b8;

in #content-inner.

The problem is that pages such as Modules/list and Themes/list still have a white background, even though the text color has been changed to #ffe5b8. This means that it is almost impossible to read the text.

Can anyone tell me which style controls the background color on these and similar pages so I can change it to black?

Sorry to ask such an elementary question but I have spent hours on searches and cannot find the answer.

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Answers

 

by: fearialtogPosted on 2009-10-30 at 01:45:57ID: 25701022

Most of the default style sheets have a section marked with the following comment

** Module specific styles
It appears around line number 275

Alter the background colours from here on.

An Example of the code found in style.css
 
/*
** Module specific styles
*/
#aggregator .feed-source {
  background-color: #eee;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 1em;
  margin: 1em 0;
}
#aggregator .news-item .categories, #aggregator .source, #aggregator .age {
  color: #999;
  font-style: italic;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}
#aggregator .title {
  margin-bottom: 0.5em;
  font-size: 1em;
}
#aggregator h3 {
  margin-top: 1em;
}
#forum table {
  width: 100%;
}
#forum td {
  padding: 0.5em;
}
#forum td.forum, #forum td.posts {
  background-color: #eee;
}
#forum td.topics, #forum td.last-reply {
  background-color: #ddd;
}
#forum td.container {
  background-color: #ccc;
}
#forum td.container a {
  color: #555;
}
#forum td.statistics, #forum td.settings, #forum td.pager {
  height: 1.5em;
  border: 1px solid #bbb;
}
#forum td .name {
  color: #96c;
}
#forum td .links {
  padding-top: 0.7em;
  font-size: 0.9em;
}
#profile .profile {
  clear: both;
  border: 1px solid #abc;
  padding: .5em;
  margin: 1em 0em;
}
#profile .profile .name {
  padding-bottom: 0.5em;
}
.block-forum h3 {
  margin-bottom: .5em;
}
div.admin-panel .description {
  color: #999;
}
div.admin-panel .body {
  background: #f4f4f4;
}
div.admin-panel h3 {
  background-color: #69c;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 5px 8px 5px;
  margin: 0;
}

                                              
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by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 08:52:52ID: 25704164

Thanks for your helpful advice.
I do not understand how the styles in drupal6-reference.css (that appears to be the name of styles.css in my Zen sub-theme, at least it appears to contain the coding you have quoted) relate to the styles in my "personalised" css file (my_theme_name.css).
I have added the following to the page style in my theme_name.css file:

background-image: url(images/Homepagebg3.jpg) !important;

This, as I suppose one would expect, creates a background for the whole site incuding the admin pages.

What I would like to do is to make the background of the content area of my pages black (preserving the image background in the sidebars and header and footer)  and to change the text color for all my pages WITHOUT affecting the admin pages.

Do the styles in drupal6-reference.css override those in my personalised css file and, if so, which ones will affect all the admin pages? I have tried to identify the styles using Firefox/firebug but I find it very confusing.

Sorry to ask such elementary questions.

 

by: fearialtogPosted on 2009-10-30 at 09:18:47ID: 25704443

I am not familiar with the Zen Sub theme so I talk in general terms.

It looks like you have set the default background colour successfully.
This colour can be over written by later entries in the style sheet or in another style sheet.
!important is used to tell the browser to use this style over previous entries. But if later in the sheet, it encounters a different setting it will use this setting not the previous setting. (The browser reads the style sheet form top to bottom)

You can either modify the later entries or delete them and hope that they will pick up the default style.

It is better to edit the main style sheet rather than add other style sheets due to the danger of conflicts. Make a copy of your style sheet then delete or change settings as you wish. That way you can always restore your original settings in the event of it all going wrong.


 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 09:50:00ID: 25704768

Thanks again.
Yes, I suppose the personalised style sheet styles are overwriting the "core" drupal ones, so if I define a background image or background or text color these will overwrite such definitions for the admin pages.
I was hoping to be able to insert a block into the content area and change its background color to black and its text color but NOT include this block in the admin pages.
In the block configure page one can define pages on which the block should not appear. Is there any simple way of specifying all the admin pages here?

 

by: fearialtogPosted on 2009-10-30 at 09:53:34ID: 25704803

Could you attach your style sheets to another message so I can take a look.

 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 10:39:23ID: 25705212

here they are. Have changed the extensions to .txt

 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 10:44:16ID: 25705251

Sorry, zipping the others now and will send them ASAP.

 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 10:44:19ID: 25705252

Sorry, zipping the others now and will send them ASAP.

 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-10-30 at 10:57:00ID: 25705352

Here are the others. Sorry for multiple blank messages!

 

by: bogormanPosted on 2009-11-02 at 07:41:16ID: 25720350

Sorry to chase you. Wonder if you have had time to look at the css.

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