[Cialug] OT: CSS Help

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Kulish, Chris <ckulish at shazam.net> wrote:
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> I’m currently trying to fix up a Drupal theme by correcting some of the shortcomings I’ve found, but I’ve not worked with CSS directly much in the past.
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> On my tech.kulish.com site, I am having a couple issues with colors that I cannot seem to locate in the *.css files anywhere.  I suppose these could be contained right in the php files themselves, but that would short circuit the benefits of stylesheets wouldn’t it?
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Hi, there are embedded images in the HTML email you sent. This is
usually an indication that your email is 99% likely spam. It is best
to use plain text emails to lists but if you have simple formatted
html emails people probably won't complain.

Regarding your question, yes, there are people with drupal experience
on the list. I use it to manage my sites and am quite comfortable w/
the theming and CSS. There is also a local drupal users group at
groups.drupal.org/iowa with some people who are far more knowledgeable
than me.

However, I think in your case what you need is firebug. It is a plugin
for firefox that lets you inspect page elements to see what styles are
affecting it. It even shows you what line number of the css file
defines the styles. You can adjust them in-browser and see the changes
immediately though they're not saved when you refresh the page. After
you install firebug, click the little bug icon in the bottom right
corner to expose the firebug console. At the top left of this console
the second icon from the left is the inspector. Click it once then
click on any element on the page to view the HTML and CSS.

It will change your life (as a web developer).

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