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Post March 2nd, 2008, 6:31 pm

Okay, I have done this before and I guess I can't do it again... Quite maddening and very frustrating... I can't find the CSS id's and classes that they use in any of the css files... theres a lot to test out so its a LONG FREAKING TIME SPENT SEARCHING :x :x :x :x :x :evil:

Any help out there? I want it to look like my site but it's proving to be really really hard and impossible... I have done it before but right now it seems really hard :x :x :x
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Post March 2nd, 2008, 9:52 pm

What Id's and classes are you looking for? I am so confused right now lol.

I hate editting phpbb3.

But apparently you can do it through the ACP. I found a tutorial on adding a new style, but it includes steps on how to edit the stylesheet etc. perhaps it will be helpful, http://olympuswiki.naderman.de/Templating_Tutorial
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 4:27 am

phpBB3 is very easy to edit.

Just download the entire site to your local machine, and do an ID search in the CSS stylesheet folder.
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 3:31 pm

ace5p1d0r wrote:
phpBB3 is very easy to edit.

Just download the entire site to your local machine, and do an ID search in the CSS stylesheet folder.


ID search through the CSS stylesheet folder... how do I do that? Unless it involves opening and searching each CSS file... Which I do in Notepad and I get 0 Results on every stylesheet folder... Not cool.

Through the ACP it doesn't help either...
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 4:50 pm

What id's are you looking for? Cos thats a really weird problem.

Perhaps open the HTML file and go through and see which div each part uses and go from there?
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 4:53 pm

I'm looking for id "page-header" and class "headerbar" on a subsilver theme of PHPBB3
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 7:58 pm

What are you trying to do? Cos I found "pageheader" and in the overall_header.tpl, the header is using these div's.

Code: [ Select ]
<div id="wrapheader">

    <div id="logodesc">
        <table width="100%" cellspacing="0">
        <tr>
            <td><a href="{U_INDEX}">{SITE_LOGO_IMG}</a></td>
            <td width="100%" align="center"><h1>{SITENAME}</h1><span class="gen">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</span></td>
        </tr>
        </table>
  1. <div id="wrapheader">
  3.     <div id="logodesc">
  4.         <table width="100%" cellspacing="0">
  5.         <tr>
  6.             <td><a href="{U_INDEX}">{SITE_LOGO_IMG}</a></td>
  7.             <td width="100%" align="center"><h1>{SITENAME}</h1><span class="gen">{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</span></td>
  8.         </tr>
  9.         </table>


Which are located, at lines 36, and 64 of the CSS file.

I am just trying to understand what you are trying to do.
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 11:13 pm

Aweseom! Great! you found the "pageheader" in one of the 14 CSS files. Can you tell me which one it is in? I'm trying to edit it by the way. The whole design.

It's PHPbb3 so it's not going to be *.tpl... it's *.html

My piece of code I'm working on is...

Code: [ Select ]
<div id="wrap">
    <a id="top" name="top" accesskey="t"></a>
    <div id="page-header">
        <div class="headerbar">
            <div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span>

            <div id="site-description">
                <a href="{U_INDEX}" title="{L_INDEX}" id="logo">{SITE_LOGO_IMG}</a>
                <h1>{SITENAME}</h1>
                <p>{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</p>
                <p style="display: none;"><a href="#start_here">{L_SKIP}</a></p>
            </div>
  1. <div id="wrap">
  2.     <a id="top" name="top" accesskey="t"></a>
  3.     <div id="page-header">
  4.         <div class="headerbar">
  5.             <div class="inner"><span class="corners-top"><span></span></span>
  7.             <div id="site-description">
  8.                 <a href="{U_INDEX}" title="{L_INDEX}" id="logo">{SITE_LOGO_IMG}</a>
  9.                 <h1>{SITENAME}</h1>
  10.                 <p>{SITE_DESCRIPTION}</p>
  11.                 <p style="display: none;"><a href="#start_here">{L_SKIP}</a></p>
  12.             </div>


The same as in ptosilver PHPbb3 style...
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Post March 3rd, 2008, 11:28 pm

Bogey wrote:
I'm looking for id "page-header" and class "headerbar" on a subsilver theme of PHPBB3

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Aweseom! Great! you found the "pageheader" in one of the 14 CSS files. Can you tell me which one it is in? I'm trying to edit it by the way. The whole design.

Bogey, the subsilver theme for phpBB3 has only one CSS file associated with it, not fourteen. So if you're seeing 14 CSS files, you're in the wrong theme, or you need to greatly clarify what exactly you're doing here before you bust out with the [rather rude] sarcasm at Benat.
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Post March 4th, 2008, 12:31 am

Um yeah its only got one CSS file. LOL!

And btw tpl, html when associated with phpbb is the same in my opinion haha. You knew what I meant so all is good :D
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Post March 4th, 2008, 2:47 am

I'm sorry, should have been more specific. If you are using Dreamweaver, you can search the source code of an entire folder with Ctrl + F.
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Post March 4th, 2008, 2:56 am

if you are using firefox download and install the webmastr plug in and it will show you all the div ids and structure and information on screen as you look and mouse role over the site, then you just change the CSS to suit
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Post March 4th, 2008, 6:54 am

kitcorsa wrote:
if you are using firefox download and install the webmastr plug in and it will show you all the div ids and structure and information on screen as you look and mouse role over the site, then you just change the CSS to suit

Yeah that'll be the easiest to find it ... Just a clarification ... it is the "Web Developer" add-on ... Just so you know ...
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Post March 4th, 2008, 7:55 am

righteous_trespasser wrote:
kitcorsa wrote:
if you are using firefox download and install the webmastr plug in and it will show you all the div ids and structure and information on screen as you look and mouse role over the site, then you just change the CSS to suit

Yeah that'll be the easiest to find it ... Just a clarification ... it is the "Web Developer" add-on ... Just so you know ...


I suggest that tool for Firefox and the Developer Toolbar for IE as well. I'd say that both are "must have"s. :)
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Post March 4th, 2008, 12:24 pm

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righteous_trespasser wrote:
kitcorsa wrote:
if you are using firefox download and install the webmastr plug in and it will show you all the div ids and structure and information on screen as you look and mouse role over the site, then you just change the CSS to suit

Yeah that'll be the easiest to find it ... Just a clarification ... it is the "Web Developer" add-on ... Just so you know ...


I suggest that tool for Firefox and the Developer Toolbar for IE as well. I'd say that both are "must have"s. :)

There's one for IE? Must find it right now ...
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