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Button Back color

Asked by: cyberwebservice

Hi,

I am changing the template for the php script. At present all the buttons have the white back ground...i want to change it to some other color to suit the template.

I do not know from where the white color is taken. I checked the style.css file but not able to find.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Answers

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:02:29ID: 19927311

check some of the custom made buttons here
http://www.einternals.com/library.php?artid=gradbutton

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:04:44ID: 19927316

to change the background color of a button use something like this
<html>
<head>
<style>
#btnButton {
      background-color:#006699;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<input name="btnButton" type="button" id="btnButton" value="Button" />
</body>
</html>

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:11:50ID: 19927338

hello kiran,

Thanks. I can create my own buttons. But I want to know where to change the color from white to yellow? I want to know from where all the buttons are taking the 'white' color. Normally if we don't set the style, the button will have a light grey color.

I have at least 30 buttons in that script, so if i know where to change it, i can do it with a single code change.

This is the style.css file i have. Please have a look at it and let me know if can find out the style for buttons:

BODY {FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif 11px;}
td {
      font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;
      font-size: 11px;
      border-bottom-width: medium;
      border-bottom-style: none;



}

.bw {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;color:#00FF00;}
.w {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:#00CC99;}

.job {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:#99C00B;}
.jobb {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;color:#458BBF;}
.jobr {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:#458BBF;}

<!-- -- link -- -->
a:link, a:visited {color:#333333;text-decoration:none;}
a:active {color:#333333;text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {color:#333333;text-decoration:underline;}

a.w:link, a.w:visited {color:#00FF00;text-decoration:none;}
a.w:active {color:#CC0099;text-decoration:none;}
a.w:hover {color:#FFFFFF;text-decoration:underline;}

a.n:link, a.n:visited {color:#333333;text-decoration:none;}
a.n:active {color:#333333;text-decoration:none;}
a.n:hover {color:#333333;text-decoration:underline;}

<!--  -- form -- -->
input.text {font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, Sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:#333333;}
select {
      font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      font-size:11px;
      font-weight:normal;
      color:#000000;
      border-color: #000000;
      border-width: 1px;
}

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:19:12ID: 19927360

the style to change the button color is not in the styles you provided.

some questions

1. What is the id of the button you are using.
2. Is  there any css files linked to your html file
like <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css_file.css" />
3. Is there any style like input or input.button

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:20:59ID: 19927366

for debuging css u can use firebug addon in firefox. It makes webdevelopers life easy
check this http://www.getfirebug.com/

 

by: bportlockPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:35:21ID: 19927421

Another point to consider.

If your buttons are graphics then unless they have a transparent background colour then you can change the CSS all you like and it will have no effect.

There are a number of ways to create non-graphic buttons such as using tables, DIVs or ULs. Which are you using?

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:37:44ID: 19927437

good point bportlock.

@cyberwebservice
are you sure your button is not a graphics, is your button created by input html tag

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:42:08ID: 19927451

This is the for the button
<input type=submit name=submit value=Search>

there is no class or style specified in this.

there are no other style sheets attached to the php page.

ok, i will change the bgcolor for "INPUT" and see.

 

by: bportlockPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:45:03ID: 19927463

I would change the class for <INPUT... as it will do all of them. Try this

.butClass {
     background: red; color: white;
}


....

<input name='submit' class='butClass' type='submit' value='Search' />

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:45:45ID: 19927468

ok i changed this: This was in a style.php file.

INPUT {      BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px double; BORDER-TOP: #333333 1px double; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BORDER-LEFT: #333333 1px double; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 1px double; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; CURSOR: hand; COLOR: $s5formtext; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000;}

i set the background color to black, all the text boxes and buttons are changed to black.

But, I want to change only the button bgcolor. Any ideas?

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:46:41ID: 19927473

hi bportlock,

did u see my second post

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:47:22ID: 19927476

@bportlock

I can do that...but i have to change in lot of php pages...nearly 30 pages.

another easy method?

 

by: bportlockPosted on 2007-09-20 at 04:55:53ID: 19927501

Unfortunately not. If you've been consistent in your programming style a global search & replace might work. Do something like

Find:   <input name='submit'

Replace with:  <input name='submit' class='butClass'

If you are on Linux and you are comfortable with the SED editor you could probably do the lot, but BACK THEM UP FIRST if you do!!!!

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 05:24:17ID: 19927627

hi cyberwebservice,
i have written some javascript to tackle the issue

here is it

<script language="javascript">
var inputArray = new Array();
inputArray = document.body.getElementsByTagName('input');

for(i=0;i<inputArray.length;i++)
{
      //alert(inputArray[i].type);
      if(inputArray[i].type == 'button')
            inputArray[i].className = "btnButton";
}
</script>

paste this just above the closing body tag in all pages. It will check if an input is button or text. If its button it will apply the class name btnButton Make sure you add this class in your master style sheet. You can copy the above javascript in a js file and include it just above the closing body tag.

here is the code for a working version.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style>
.btnButton {
      background-color: #CCCCCC;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>
<input name="btnButton" type="button" id="btnButton" value="Button" />
<input name="" type="text" />
<script language="javascript">
var inputArray = new Array();
inputArray = document.body.getElementsByTagName('input');

for(i=0;i<inputArray.length;i++)
{
      //alert(inputArray[i].type);
      if(inputArray[i].type == 'button')
            inputArray[i].className = "btnButton";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

hope this helps
kiranvj

 

by: maisonlaprisePosted on 2007-09-20 at 06:20:44ID: 19928020

Try this in your style.php file :

INPUT {      BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px double; BORDER-TOP: #333333 1px double; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BORDER-LEFT: #333333 1px double; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 1px double; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; CURSOR: hand; COLOR: $s5formtext;}

INPUT[type="text"] {  BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; }

INPUT[type="button"], INPUT[type="submit"] { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #000000; COLOR: #ffffff; }

Hope this helps

 

by: maisonlaprisePosted on 2007-09-20 at 06:42:13ID: 19928192

Well you would not need that line "INPUT[type="text"] {  BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; }" if you want the backgroundcolor of your textbox to be white since it is by default...

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-20 at 09:27:03ID: 19929533

Thanks guys.

I used this:http://www.einternals.com/library.php?artid=gradbutton and created my own gradient background image and created a button style.

As per the suggestion of bportlock, i did a find and replace for all the buttons.....without forgetting to backup the files first ;-)

@maisonlaprise
I tried your suggestion, unfortunately it did not work for me.

 

by: kiranvjPosted on 2007-09-20 at 21:47:37ID: 19933388

I tried maisonlaprise's code. It worked fine in FF but not in IE. I think there has to be some hack in CSS to work fine in IE.

kiranvj

 

by: dereshPosted on 2007-09-21 at 00:19:57ID: 19933797

those kind of css selectors doesn't work in IE at all

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-21 at 00:24:47ID: 19933812

Thanks for the additional info....I needed that mainly for IE.

 

by: cyberwebservicePosted on 2007-09-21 at 00:25:44ID: 19933814

I must have given points to maisonlaprise too... sorry, maisonlaprise.

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