everybody is used to blue?  not sure what that means…  that is far, far from universal…

have you visited the Barebones customizer?  forum – themes – customizer…  lets you do some basic customization of the theme, like link colors…  not sure it can make them underlined though…

everyone is used to blue underlined links

I was going to comment on this as well. I think it was true back in 1994 but is absolutely not the case today.

But for that ‘1994 look’ you can change them to whatever you prefer in the ‘Custom CSS’ panel of the Themes section of the forum admin. Just add rules for the links for colour and underline. Something like:

a { 
    color: blue !important; 
    text-decoration: underline !important; 
}

will do it.

Thank you.

Mr. Papa, I cannot find  “forum – themes – customizer”.  “Customizer” is not an option under the themes menu. How do I find this ‘Barebones customizer’?

I did find the custom CSS area. If I use this custom CSS, will this remain when you release theme updates or do I have to re-enter it after updates?

The parameter “a” seems to refer to all links. Right now the links in the sidebar and in the top panel are black and the links in the text are orange. Is there a custom CSS to only change the link color in the text section but not affect the sidebar and everything else? Actually your custom code changed all links to blue, including the main menu of my website, so I had to delete it.

Sorry, Steve was referring to the theme ‘Barebones’ which is available in the store. It adds a custom colour page to the themes section of your admin which lets you make quick colour changes, but of course they only apply to Barebones not Reboot.

And yes to the custom CSS box. Any changes added there will remain indefinitely.

whoops!  yeah, sorry have barebones on the brain…  thanks @ike 

Is the barebones theme an improvement over the standard theme, or what is the difference between the two?

certainly newer and more modern than the default theme…  better?  that would be in the eye of the beholder…  it is a more minimalist theme…  differences in layout and appearance…

Yellow Swordfish, it looks like you missed a question which I posted after you gave me the custom CSS for changing the link colors. Here it is again:

The parameter “a” seems to refer to all links. Right now the links in the sidebar and in the top panel are black and the links in the text are orange. Is there a custom CSS to only change the link color in the text section but not affect the sidebar and everything else? Actually your custom code changed all links on my site to blue, including the main menu of my website, and therefore I had to delete the custom CSS. Is there a way to modify your CSS?

I missed it too I think, but I was replying from my phone so didn’t see the edit.

You could use ‘#spMainContainer a’ instead of just ‘a’ and the rest of the CSS Andy posted. That should target all links within the forum. I can’t post the code right now as I’m on my phone but you should be able to add it easily enough.

I tried adding ‘#spMainContainer a’ to the code, but it doesn’t work. When you are on your computer could you please post the exact code. Here is what I tried:

#spMainContainer a {     color: blue !important;     text-decoration: underline !important; }

Well that looks about right. Back at computer now..

I posted exactly the same thing for someone else recently here, and it looks to me to be exactly the same CSS..

#spMainContainer a {     
    color: blue !important; 
}

Got it to work, thanks!

good news… thanks for the update…