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dyzs · **Change hyperlink color... -** 10-07-2005, 12:16 AM

Would it be possible for you to change the hyperlink color to blue or something so that it is obvious when a word such as BlackBerryForums is a URL?

Mark Rejhon · 10-07-2005, 12:54 AM

I'd like that feature too -- We tried to do something of this sort, but it wasn't easy to do without also changing the color of the main screen links which we didn't want...

dyzs · 10-07-2005, 01:10 AM

If the main screen links were just changed to a different color than the moderators names then it shouldn't be such a problem. What about doing a one or two week trial run?

jibi · **OS:** 4.6.0.171

links that are made within posts/threads are taken from the same place as forumhome links as well as those from the front page, so there's no easy way around it. if it was simple and didn't affect every other place on the forum, then i'm sure it would have been done months ago. one would actually have to change the way vBulletin was designed. i'll be installing 3.5 on my site here shortly, so i'll see if they addressed it in that version. if not, i'll talk with the designers of the portal software used here and on my site and see if he can change something.

dyzs · 10-07-2005, 11:00 AM

Have a look at flyertalk.com as an example of what I mean.

jibi · **OS:** 4.6.0.171

it really depends on how one would like web design, to be perfectly honest. if i went to the forumhome pages (where it lists all the forums and subforums), i'd prefer the color to remain as is rather than some other color. the reason why royal works over on flyertalk is because the main color in the scheme for the website is royal.

the only color that'd look decent is this baby-blue color, but that'd likely clash with the rest of the scheme.

T-Roy · 10-09-2005, 01:05 PM

If were asking for opinions, and I know were not but if you ask me and you didn't... the entire colour scheme of the site is bland - maybe its time for a face lift?

mrogers · 10-11-2005, 12:19 PM

It IS possible to change just the color of the links inside posts using CSS inheritance. For example, your forum HTML around a post is setup like this (extra stuff cut out for brevity):

HTML Code:

<div id="posts">
...
 <table class="tborder" ...>
 ...
	  <tr>
		  <td class="alt2">
		   ... <!-- User info here -->
		  </td>
		  <td class="alt1">
		   ...
			  <div> <!-- The actual post is here --> </div>
		 </td>
	  </tr>
 ...
 </table>
<!-- and then another table for the next post, etc -->
...
</div>

So, if you just want to change the link color in posts, this is what you add to the CSS:

HTML Code:

#posts table tr td.alt1 div a:link { color:#whatever; }
#posts table tr td.alt1 div a:visited { color:#whatever; }
#posts table tr td.alt1 div a:hover { color:#whatever; }
#posts table tr td.alt1 div a:active { color:#whatever; }

That will change the link color in posts without affecting any other link on the site.

Mark Rejhon · 10-11-2005, 04:45 PM

Since we only truly want black for the main forum topics list, I think that this form of CSS inheritance would only need to be necessary for the main forum topics list. At least I'd think so.

Basically, a different default color than black, but override to black color where necessary.

One of our lazy asses would have to get off and do something about this on the internal test forum site though. (And then nag Guess into putting the changes online. Ha ha!)