Question Changing colors of my Kunena forum

Thanks - I read that. Not sure if you are referring to the part that basically says "learn CSS" which I am trying to do, or the part that says copy this to the bottom of your template (which I did). I then uploaded that back up to my sites theme, cleared my cache and checked on 3 different browsers however nothing has changed.

I did spend 3 full days trying to figure this out on my own before running to the forums, and I understand this is a free product - but any additional help you can give is much appreciated. I'm not even trying to do anything fancy here - just change some text color. Thank you

The part of the message that I think helps you with your specific question is this:

sozzled wrote: I'll give you the solution to the category link colour issue now:

Add the following lines to the end of your site template file (../templates/templatewheelblog/css/template.css)

Code:

#Kunena div.kthead-title a { color: black; } #Kunena a:link, #Kunena a:visited, #Kunena a:active { color: black; } #Kunena a:hover, #Kunena div.kthead-title a:hover { color: red; }

Obviously, though, the location and filename of your Joomla site template will be different.

Yes...I know that. I am using Joomla's default Beez template and added the code you supplied to the bottom of that template.css file, however nothing changed. Switching around between the default templates and styles I notice this color is remaining unchanged through all of them - is there perhaps a different file that needs to be edited?

Without knowing more about your website there's not a lot more that I can add to what I have written. As much as it can help to describe the issues that people may have (with marrying Kunena to their Joomla site) by using images - as you did earlier - there's really no substitute for seeing the problem in "real life".

As much as we can write that www.kunena.org is a community-driven, self-help forum and that nearly every styling issue can be solved if people are knowledgeable about CSS or fluent with in-browser web-development tools like Firebug - and these things are, of course, completely true - the reality is that not everyone is knowledgeable about how Joomla works, how to write CSS or how to make in-browser developers tools like Firebug work for them.

I think a lot of people expect that they can solve every style customising problem they could possibly envisage if they only knew which parts of the Kunena template CSS did whatever they did or, if by merely showing us a picture, that we would know what needs to be changed in the Kunena template That might be true. The difficulty is that if you change the Kunena template you need to know how to change it properly and ensure that the customised changes you make in one version of Kunena will remain intact whenever you upgrade Kunena. On the other hand, if you could just as easily solve those problems with a bit of know-how and a couple of mouse-clicks, wouldn't it be better if there was a simpler solution that only involved modifying your Joomla site template?

If you would like to post your K 1.6 configuration report, I'll have a look at how your site is setup and I'll see if I can provide you with a more targeted response that I have been able to give you to this point.

Thank you - configuration report is below

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In your case you need to add the !important rule to what you've done, thus: