Images for the category page?

Babyeater

    .DataList.CategoryList li.Item.Category-art a.General{
    background: url(http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/make/objects/banner3.gif);
    }

    .DataList.CategoryList li.Item.Category-gallery a.General{
    background: url(http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/make/objects/banner3.gif);
    }

Would either of these be right? I just stuck a random image in there to test but I'm not able to get anything to come up. I read the page you linked me.

I was confused where i change the a.Title and whether I leave it in the

background:your background here pic or whatever;

or

background: url( )

format.

I am trying using a copy of the default Vanilla and have a completely blank custom.css besides this code in order to test as R_J told me to. Is that a bad thing?

peregrine

see

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-image.asp

also notice the quotes (' ')

I am trying using a copy of the default Vanilla and have a completely blank custom.css besides this code in order to test as R_J told me to. Is that a bad thing?

no, thats a good thing. you make your own custom.css if there is not one in your theme folder.

vrijvlinder

@Babyeater said:
.DataList.CategoryList li.Item.Category-art a.General{
background: url(http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/make/objects/banner3.gif);
}

.DataList.CategoryList li.Item.Category-gallery a.General{
background: url(http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/make/objects/banner3.gif);
}

Would either of these be right? I just stuck a random image in there to test but I'm not able to get anything to come up. I read the page you linked me.

I was confused where i change the a.Title and whether I leave it in the

background:your background here pic or whatever;

No you only change the Category name . a.Title is the class of that link you do not change that.

    .DataList.CategoryList li.Item.Category-thenameofyourcategorygoeshere a.Title{
         background: url(http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/make/objects/banner3.gif);
         }

You will need to add height and width to adjust it to your liking.

vrijvlinder

@Babyeater I made a plugin for you see if you like it. I added some images but you can just replace them. Just add the name of each category in the css file of the plugin, like I explained above.

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/categorybg-plugin

Babyeater

@vrijvlinder said:
Babyeater I made a plugin for you see if you like it. I added some images but you can just replace them. Just add the name of each category in the css file of the plugin, like I explained above.

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/categorybg-plugin

You are a gentleman, scholar, and saint.

Honah be upon your famiru.

peregrine

You are a gentleman, scholar, and saint.

scholar, saint - Yes

gentleman - No

gentlewoman - perhaps.

Tip: and if you look closely at the image you can see hints of eye shadow, mascara, and blush. That should be a dead give-away.

vrijvlinder