Growing Successful Communities

[#1]

Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to either eliminate, or change the color of the colored box that appears around every avatar on Lithium forums both in the statistics box and on posts? It seems like every Lithium community I've looked at has these boxes, and in some cases they are different colors (i.e. here they are a light blue) so it seems like it's possible to at least change them if not get rid of them entirely (and if they are changeable, the same effect can be achieved by changing them to match the background color), but I can't find that setting anywhere in Layout Settings->Colors.  Or is the color for these boxes carried over from some other color setting?

Thanks!

Jon

Message Edited by Jon_B on 03-16-2009 10:49 AM

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jon_B,

That color, as far as I can tell, is caused by the default link color of the community. Specificall, the icon is an image "<img>" tag inside an anchor tag "<a>" and neither the image tag nor the anchor tag have a CSS class or id in this case. That means that the color around the icon is the basic color of an anchor tag without any selectors. To style these elements specifically using CSS, you would probably want to target the anchor tag with color:#xxxxxx; but specify some of the elements within which it is nested in the context it appears so that you don't set the color for all links on the community. Hope this helps,

Message Edited by chasw on 03-17-2009 11:05 AM

[#3]

Thanks Chas, that is indeed very helpful!