Changing text colour of..........

[Cheese-Burger]

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Iv`e done a theme for someone, but the background is very dark and these bits don`t show up too well at all. I want to keep the rest of the text colours, but be able to change only this part. Is it hard codes somewhere, or am i just stuck with it?

[xenovanis]

It's using smalltext class. If you change the fontcolor for this class, it will change the color for all smalltext parts. You'd better create a new class for it and apply this class to the code in MessageIndex.template.php.

[Cheese-Burger]

Holy Cow 

That sounds waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay beyond my capabilities

[1MileCrash]

it's totally not.

breakdown time:

that text is in a tag with class="smalltext". so it may be like <span style="smalltext">words.</span>.

the class for smalltext looks like this. (default theme) (we''re in style.css btw)

.smalltext
{
   font-size: x-small;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

all you need to do is copy that, and paste it at the bottom of style.css, and rename it. so it may look like this. (notice the new name)

.smalltext2
{
   font-size: x-small;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

then you just add a color attribute to it.

.smalltext2
{
   color: #******;
   font-size: x-small;
   font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;
}

now, all you have to do is open messageindex.template.php, find the <tr> for that text, and wherever you see class="smalltext", replace it with class="smalltext2". then it will abide by your color attribute.

[Cheese-Burger]

Tipp, you`re a champ i owe you one.

I`m a bit wasted now, but i`ll try it in the morning.

[Cheese-Burger]

  Worked like a charm (once i got the spelling of "color" right). Thanks again Tipp.