Question [Merged topic] K 1.6/1.7 - colouring categories

Thanks for your explanation.
Thing are cleare to me now.
I'll experiment on my local site.
Could you give me a hint where to find the option in a template to have the opportunity to change colours in the Category?

Open the forum.css and search for -red or -pink.

You will find entries for all the colors we have defined.

In addition the color coding is just demonstrating a very powerful feature of the forums: Not only can you color code, you could change the look and feel redefining other UI elements.

Very simple example: define a -bold css override and make the font bold, or italic, or with a different font or different sizes (e.g. -small or -big) could change the size of posts from particular categories.

The possibilities are endless. The colors are just the start.

As always: remember that Kunena uses the minified css and js libraries when in normal mode and only loads the clear text versions when in Kunena debug mode.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for your hint, regarding the css file and what to look for.

I've been tinking... I use a joomla template (changed to my own needs) derived from a Themza template.
(Colourfull world it was)
They use the following solution to choose a colour variaty in the template:
- In their templateDetails.xml:

<params>
<param name="colorVariation" type="list" default="blue" label="Color Variation" description="Color variation to use">
<option value="blue">Blue</option>
<option value="dblue">Dark Blue</option>
<option value="pink">Pink</option>
<option value="green">Green</option>
<option value="orange">Orange</option>
</param>
</params>

Next to this a file called 'params.ini' containing the following:

colorVariation=blue

and in their 'index.php' the following statement:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $this->baseurl ?>/templates/<?php echo $this->template ?>/css/<?php echo $this->params->get('colorVariation'); ?>.css" type="text/css" />

With this one can choose a 'colourVariation' in the template settings (dropdown list)

Maybe this might be an idea to incorporate in Kunena's templates.

Those users, who are 'clever' enough, might be able to change things in the 'xml'-list as well as in the 'css', to meet theis specific needs.
Otherwise Kunena just offers an scale of colour variations as the, more or less' do now in a 'simpler' way.

It is just a though I had...

If my idea is too complicated, never mind my suggestion.
However, if it is something to build in, t was just a suggestion. I'm not wanting to 'own credits' for it.

Anyway, I'm going to 'play around' with your help.

That's good that you got the solution. I did same mistake once. By mistake I had removed the extension of a file and getting a warning message and after too many efforts I get to know the reason.. I think we developers concentrate more on coding and forget the small mistakes.. LOL.. Apart from that there are few really cool suggestions so I am going to give them a try. Thanks guys..

Hi all,

For each category in the Category Manager, at the bottom of the Settings tab, there is a field called Forum CSS Class Suffix, with the description: "CSS suffixes applied to index, showcat, view, and allow for different designs per forum."

Can someone give me an example of how this works? In particular, I would like a given category to have a different appearance (text color or background) in the Index and Recent topics.

I believe it used here on this forum. If you go to the Index page, the section dedicated Kunena 1.5 has a darker background than the rest of the categories. I assume this is done using the Forum CSS Class Suffix.

Thanks.

See Kunena 1.6 - "Cats" (not the musical)