[pmwiki-users] Editing Background Colour of In-Wiki Fields

[Simon]

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2008/11/17 Benjamin Massey <me at benmassey.ca>

>  Thanks for the prompt reply, but I don't think I was being clear. I'm not
> worried about the colour for the overall site or the main content area: I've
> got those set the way I like and am quite happy with them. I'm referring to
> the background colour of a couple of very specific boxes that can be called
> on the site: Mediawiki would call them "templates" but I'm not sure what the
> phrase is for FBWiki. Because I'm an idiot, I did look through the CSS file
> and even did a find for the background colours to see if they were in there,
> but they're not.
>
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> A screenshot will probably help me say what I mean.
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> http://www.corpexpanse.com/cradle/images/nocontrast1.png
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> *From:* Simon [mailto:nzskiwi at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* November 16, 2008 9:44 PM
> *To:* Benjamin Massey
> *Cc:* pmwiki-users
> *Subject:* Re: [pmwiki-users] Editing Background Colour of In-Wiki Fields
>
>
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> In the directory
>
> \public_html\pmwiki\pub\skins\pmwiki\
>
> you will find the file pmwiki.css
>
> This file contains the basic look and feel for pmwiki.
>
> If you have copied this to create your own skin (recommended as otherwise
> upgrades can overwrite the default skin) then you need to look in the same
> file in, say
>
> \public_html\pmwiki\pub\skins\yourskinname\
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>
>
> Simon
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>
>
> See also
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> http://pmwiki.com/wiki/PmWiki/Skins
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> http://pmwiki.com/wiki/Cookbook/Skins
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> http://pmwiki.com/wiki/Cookbook/SkinsGallery
>
>
>
> From pmwiki.css
>
>
>
> /* This sets the overall frame for the site */
>
> body {
>
>   margin:0px; background-color:#f7f7f7;
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>   font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt;
>
> }
>
> /* These affect the main content area. */
>
> #wikibody {
>
>   padding:0px 10px 10px 10px; background-color:white;
>
>   font-size:11pt;
>
> }
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> If you are using a skin the the skin may well set the background colour in
> a different.
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> 2008/11/17 Benjamin Massey <me at benmassey.ca>
>
> This is my first day using PmWiki, I have absolutely no idea what
> terminology to use here and will thus sound like a moron. Please bear
> with me.
>
> I've set up a wiki for my game's website and done up a semi-custom skin
> for it. It works great, except that it's a dark theme with white text on
> a black background. There are a few fields where the background has been
> set to a light colour and therefore the text doesn't show up at all.
>
> An example of what I mean can be found at
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicEditing - that yellow box and
> that list of additional pages in the upper-right hand corner. The
> background colours are the same on my site but the font colour is white,
> making everything illegible. The same thing happens to the box
> containing the editing tips on the edit page: it's white text on a white
> background.
>
> I need to edit these background colours, but I can't find where. It
> doesn't seem to be in the skin I borrowed's CSS file, and I can't find
> any wiki page to edit. It's no doubt something heartstoppingly stupid
> that I'm missing, but any help would be appreciated.
>
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