phpbb formating question.

[Darkstar]

Hi there,
I have started building a site forum using phpbb 2, and have a question regarding font colours.
The site in question is hosted at http://utt.netfreehost.com
I am happy with most of the formatting, but when you first arrive at the registration screen the links to answer age , appear in white.
I have tried my best to find exactly which part of the style template to change this font colour, but even after trying all the font colour boxes in admin panel and changin them to black(or any other colour), the links still show white until they have been clicked.
Any ideas?

Regards,
Mark

[incrediblehelp]

Moved to Graphics & Design Discussion Forum

[krnl]

It sounds like the default a:link color is what's getting you. To test this, find a:link in your css file and change it to something else, then reload the page.

If it turns out to be true that a:link is the problem, and I'm not sure how others do it...but I would create a separate css class for those links and then change it to the correct class on the page that displays them.

Try something like:

a.mylinktype { text-decoration: none; color: #ffffff; }
a.mylinktype:active { text-decoration: none; color: #66ff66; }
a.mylinktype:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #66ff66; }
a.mylinktype:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #00ff00; }

It wouldn't be a bad idea to flip through several pages of your forum and make sure that there aren't similar problems elsewhere. Create another class if you have to, or use the one you just created if it fits in there.

Good luck!

Fishing and Outdoors Forum

[Bill in AZ]

The font colors for these links are controlled by the following CSS lines:

a.gen,a.genmed,a.gensmall { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; }
a.gen:hover,a.genmed:hover,a.gensmall:hover { color: #ffffff; text-decoration: underline; }

Often the admin panel will not allow you to edit the CSS for particular themes, so you need to edit the file directly. As you are using a free hosting solution, you may be limited in what you are allowed to do.