Depends what SP theme and overlay you are using. And – whether you have made a child theme or not which would then preserve changes form being updated by us and this lost.

Or – you could wait until after the 5.6 update (due to be released tomorrow) and use the new CSS custom admin panel which is being provided for just these sort of minor overrides.

I use Theme reboot without any child themes or other customizations.

But the CSS custom panel sounds great, just tell me the “overwrite” I would need.

Thanks

Just using:

#spMainContainer a, 
#spMainContainer a:link, 
#spMainContainer a:active, 
#spMainContainer a:visited {
    color: XXXXX !important;
}

will deal with just about everything there is. Do not like using the !important directive but in this case it might need the hammer approach.

Of course -you can split these up into separate rules if you prefer,

Thanks again. Will try with the new version.

It’s definitely going to be the easiest way of testing and using small amounts of custom CSS from now on! Although we’d still recommend using a child theme for more comprehensive changes.

Let us know how it goes..

I tested Yellow Swordfishs suggestion with 5.6 and it works. Fine thing!

But ….. there is always a “but” 😉

The generell solution of Yellow Swordfish, unfortunately changes “every colour of any link” and that doesnt make sense in my case, as it makes text with coloured background (for example in the statistics and in the group overview of the forum) unreadable.

What I am looking for is a solution just for the text in the posts. Nothing else changed.

Is it possible to provide me with a short CSS that just changes the behaviour of the link colours display in the posts itself, but NOT for the general colour structure of the theme?

In fact I even dont need a change of colour, the theme colour is fine for the posts too. All I need is a CSS, that changes the “hoovering behaviour” in the text when moving a mouse over. I need to change this into showing the colour permanently, independent of a mouse-over!

Or in other words: Links in the posts should be identifyable as links immediately and not just when by accident moving the mouse over!

Unfortunately I am no CSS expert, so I would need your help to code this.

Thanks!

Use

#spMainContainer .spTopicPostSection .spPostSection .spPostContentSection .spPostContent a:link,
#spMainContainer .spTopicPostSection .spPostSection .spPostContentSection .spPostContent a:active,
#spMainContainer .spTopicPostSection .spPostSection .spPostContentSection .spPostContent a:visited 
{ }

Thanks, but no -> no change. Colour of a link still shows up only in “Mouse-over” Mode.

Theme: Reboot – blue, no childthemes or customizations.

Works just fine my end. Did you clear your browser cache?  And what rules did you put in place?

Hmm. Tried again with browser cache completly cleared. No change.

The CSS Admin panel IS working, because the first code part had effect.

Rules? Dont know what you refer to, so I guess no. Use Theme reboot 1.0.5 out of the box with Overlay Blue, SP 5.6 and ZERO changes or customizations via the theme editor.

The actual CSS rules. I.e., the colour you are specifying.

LOL! We both truely have a habit of missunderstanding each other.

I had no colour specified in the brackets, because as I said, I dont want to change the colour of the links, I want to change the “hoovering” behaviour.

And as you in your first code explicitly wrote XXXXX into the brackets and in your second code No-X, I was assuming that is what you want.

From your question above, I was able to identify the missunderstanding. You still want a concrete colour in the brackets.

So I tried and YES IT WORKS

The only thing I now need from you is the information of what the hex-code of the “Blue” Colour of Reboot Blue Overlay is, as I want to use exactly this.

Thanks again!

With such an amount of missunderstandings, we must be either be completly alike and dont recognize it or must be from different planets. Fascinating

I see this with sympathy and I am very thankfull for your support on a sunday!

If you mean the dark blue like the header background then that is:

#38A1D6

Of course – if you want to add a hover rule then you just need to define a new block for only that.

Thanks!