Style issues

**Morrus** · April 12, 2012

Sorry for the third question in under 24 hours!

Should the wiki inherit the forum's main style? It appears to have inherited link colours (light yellow) but not the main text colour or background colour.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwik...GEIST+Campaign

I did look at the CSS section, but found it quite intimidating identifying what was what. What I need is to change the main background colour (currently white), the tabs colours (also white), and the default text colour (currently black).

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

In vBulletin 3, most of the forum style wasn't saved in stylevars, so VaultWiki doesn't have an easy job telling what colors are used for what. Under vBulletin 3 you generally have to customize the VaultWiki CSS if you're using a custom style.

The CSS is broken up into several templates that are commented and should help you find what you are looking for. The main background and text colors are handled in vw-boxes.css, tabs are handled in vw-tabs.css.

**Morrus** · April 12, 2012

I did try editing that - I changed #fff to #000, but it had no effect.

There are two instances of #fff (white):

/* main article container */ (I'm making a guess that's the main background colour)

/* tab loading message container */ (no idea what that one is)

But I changed both to #000, and the page stayed white.

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

Those are the ones you need to change, but the CSS file for your 'Black' style is not showing the changes. Either you are editing a different style (MASTER_STYLE perhaps?), you are using a mod like Template Modification System to make your changes, or the /clientscript/vbulletin_css/ folder or some of its contents are not writable by the PHP user.

**Morrus** · April 12, 2012

I'm editing the black style directly, and not using a template modification system mod. The folder and all contents have permissions set to 0777.

I did manage to change the "Add Chapter" box backgorund colour, so something worked. But the main page background refuses to change.

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

I'm viewing your site now, and the background is correct, black as expected...

Now you just need to adjust some border colors and vw-headlines.css to get the headings right.

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

I see the expires header is 0 so that's okay, but does your server cache text/html responses for later? This isn't a particularly good thing to have turned on when you are trying to update styles, and usually it's best only to do it for guests if you can control that.

**Morrus** · April 12, 2012

Originally Posted by pegasus

I'm viewing your site now, and the background is correct, black as expected...

Now you just need to adjust some border colors and vw-headlines.css to get the headings right.

OK, that's weird. It's white for me.

OK, weirder. Tried a different browser, and got the white.

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

Try viewing the site while logged out. Do you have a mod called "vB Optimise" installed? Or as I suggested earlier, does your server keep text/html responses to reuse again later? Something like Varnish or Litespeed Cache?

**pegasus** · April 12, 2012

Looks good now. Got it sorted? What was the problem?

**Morrus** · April 12, 2012

Which browser are you using?

I'm finding it's black in Firefox, but white in IE. I thought it might be a browser caching issue, but I've cleared that and it's still white in IE.