Vanilla forum style sheet code change? Match Vanilla to My Wordpress Theme help

edited February 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Can anyone help me with a vanilla forum style sheet code change?
I’m using word press with vanilla embedded and trying to get the vanilla theme to match my word press theme. The issue I currently have is that my word press theme menu bar isn’t a solid colour, it turns out its actually a picture file (PNG) and when you hover over the menus (i.e. home, blog, forum, contact etc) this changes to a different colour, which is also a picture file (PNG) the picture file is simply a colour with a gradient in it. You can see from my blog http://nystagmusblog.co.uk/forumhome that my word press menu bar has a slight gradient/tint and the vanilla forum is a simple yellow colour. Can anyone help?

The following is an extract of the CSS that drives my word press menu

/* menu structure */ .art-menu { padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; } .art-nav { position: relative; height: 30px; z-index: 100; } .art-nav .l, .art-nav .r { position: absolute; z-index: -1; top: 0; height: 30px; background-image: url('images/nav.png'); } .art-nav .l { left: 0; right:0px; } .art-nav .r { right: 0; width: 1089px; clip: rect(auto, auto, auto, 1089px); } /* end Menu */ /* begin MenuItem */ .art-menu ul li { clear: both; } .art-menu a { position:relative; display: block; overflow:hidden; height: 30px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; } .art-menu a .r, .art-menu a .l { position:absolute; display: block; top:0; z-index:-1; height: 90px; background-image: url('images/MenuItem.png'); } .art-menu a .l { left:0; right:0px; } .art-menu a .r { width:400px; right:0; clip: rect(auto, auto, auto, 400px); } .art-menu a .t { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px; color: #332400; padding: 0 22px; margin: 0 0px; line-height: 30px; text-align: center; } .art-menu a:hover .l, .art-menu a:hover .r { top:-30px; } .art-menu li:hover>a .l, .art-menu li:hover>a .r { top:-30px; } .art-menu li:hover a .l, .art-menu li:hover a .r { top:-30px; } .art-menu a:hover .t { color: #FFFFFF; } .art-menu li:hover a .t { color: #FFFFFF; } .art-menu li:hover>a .t { color: #FFFFFF; } /* end MenuItem */ And this is my vanilla section of the header. (Note: .Banner ul & .Banner ul li a:hover) I have changed to use the png file (which does exist) , this loads the menu background but dones work or look correct, it stops short and hover over the menu icons no longer works. .Banner { position: relative; height: 30px; z-index: 100; } .Banner ul { position: absolute; z-index: -1; top: 0; height: 30px; background-image: url('images/nav.png'); } .Banner ul li { left: 0; right:0px; } .Banner ul li a { font-weight: normal; padding: 3px 6px; font-size: 14px; color: #000; display: inline-block; } .Banner ul li a:hover { position: absolute; z-index: -1; top: 0; height: 30px; background-image: url('images/MenuItem.png'); } .Banner ul li a.SignOut { font-weight: normal; position: absolute; top: 10px; right: 10px; } .Banner ul li a span { border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; padding: 1px 2px 0 1px; background: #f00; border-right: 1px solid #a00; border-bottom: 1px solid #a00; color: #fff; font-size: 9px; position: relative; top: -3px; }

The above style sheet was modified from the vanilla embeded style sheet - should anyone want to chechwhat the css code originally looked like.

Thanks
Ash

Comments

  • edited February 2011
    I figured this out. used a plugin for google chrome to assist with the CSS editing. needed to change .Banner ul li a and change:

    color: #000;

    for

    background-image: url(http://domain_name/...the path where your png image file is located)

    still cant get the hover over to work...but i'm sure i will figure it out.
  • Sorted. my problem was with my png file and nothing to do with the code. this is now sorted and can be closed.
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