Solved Background of forum buttons wont display correctly

Hello again,

since my last help request was so nicely solved, I figured I would try it again here. One of my site admins said he tried to fix it, but was not able to figure out what is going wrong. See the attachment to see how the current forum buttons look like.

The request is rather simple: We would like the black background to display behind the complete word, and not just a third of each word. Could someone please point me towards where I have to change something in order to make this happen?

Thanks

Since this topic was moved into this forum 3 days ago, there were a total of 5 views on it - and no replies. I suppose people do not really check this forum? I was hoping this was an easy issue to fix.

merry x mas to everyone btw

I'm taking a blind leap of faith in making the assumption that the problem you're having relates to the same website you described >>> here <<<

If I have wrongly assumed, please let me know because, in cases like yours, although the "fix" may be easy, each solution is unique.

Generally-speaking, to fix these things requires the practical application of adding or modifying a bit of CSS - the backgrounds of the buttons used in the Blue Eagle template are defined with CSS sprites - but, because there's no way we can actually see, at first hand, the buttons on your site (because that would require logging in to your forum) this makes the job more complicated.

We do check these categories regularly. Our job in moderating the forum is not necessarily to spend hours of time resolving every tricky custom CSS question that comes our way but, rather, to allow others in the community to help one another with issues like yours.

Yes, the solution to your problem should be relatively straightforward. My guess, without knowing specifically what custom CSS you've used on your site, is that it could be done in a couple of hours but more would be revealed if we had first-hand access to the frontend of your forum.

Oh, awesome. Thank you for the reply, I was not really expecting an answer that quick around the holidays. Your help is very appreciated!

I changed the forum access (for now) so that you can go into the landing zone and see the buttons now. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you diagnose the problem.

JamesCarter,

This problem I think there is a conflict CSS between Kunena template and your Joomla template. If your site have lived, please post link here. We will have correct solution for you.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Not sure I am understanding your question correctly, but the link to my site is this: www.aao-daily.com

Hi,

Can you provide me an account to check this issue? Please send me via email.

I could not find your email, so I will just post the info here:

login: kunena
pw: kunena

Thanks again!

Hi James,

Open the template.css file of the current Joomla! template and add the bellow css code section to bottom this file.

Regards,

I did that, but it did not change anything. Maybe I have to wait before the changes take effect?

Btw, when I inspect the elements with firebug, i see a css rule saying:

#Kunena .kicon-button span {
background-color: inherit;
background-image: inherit;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
border: 0px none;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px -5px;
}

If I then disable the very first one, the buttons are suddenly shown correctly on my page. Could that be the problem?

This css code lives in a file called kunena.forum-min.css .