Hi guys,

was just wondering how to work with css. Where do I start from
and how can I use it.

Is there a good editor, simple to use and manage to make css files
and how can I use it for invision forum.

Too many questions but a small start will help me a lot.


Thanks

To start? I would probably start by editing the size and colour of text. To do this is simple. In a text editor, preferably you need to make a random name that you want for a class name. Then in your CSS, first put a '.' without the quotes before the class name, which is very important for such a simple task as this. So just for now, let's have a class called '.bluetext'. After you have the class name put down, you then need to put a { after it. Then comes where you put the code that defines what yuo want yuor text to look like. In this example, I'm going to make the text blue, so after the { you need to put: 'color: #0000FF;'. To close the class, you need to put a } after it. It is only correct syntax to put a new line after the { and after each class style. So here is the script in full:



Save it as whatever you want and as a CSS, and in notepad you will have to change the filetype that it will save as to All Files, then just add '.css' to the end of the name. To encorporate this into a different script using CSS, you will either have to link to it or import it into the script. Here are both of them for you:

Link:


Import:


Everytime you want text to appear in blue, you just need to use the class, which can be used in basically any tag. The most appropriate tags are probably <span>, <font> and <div>So in a basic php or html script, it will look like this:



There is so much more to CSS than this. This is just scratching the surface. Go to google and search for a CSS tutorial, because it is so easy and very effective.

-Mackins Hope it helps

Thanks mackins , ...

ok now want to use blue.css to colour blue, all the text in ip.php script (the final version of what is my ip) ,

how do I go about linking it to ip.php such that the colours to
ip.php text are based on bluetext.css

path to the script are

www.onlinemedicalforum.com/bfarber/ip/ip.php

path to bluetext.css =
www.onlinemedicalforum.com/bfarber/ip/bluetext.css

I am trying to make it work.

Probably I should go back to php school , where we made that script. This is confusing.

Nah, CSS is easy once you understand it.
Inside the head tags that are getting sent from ip.php, add



Then in bluetext.css, say if you wanted to make all the text blue (by default, you can use span tags and such to override this directly in your ip.php file), you could do



Notice I didn't have the "." and body is a regular html command? You can define basics for most any html tag in the css file, and the settings apply to that tag where-ever it is used in the final html output. So all text in the body of the html page will be blue.

Normally, you'd further override this by adding your own classes to change bg colors and text colors etc.

Go to www.w3schools.com and click on the CSS on the left hand column. Read through their tutorial.

back to school ?

ok

Well, I think is this the way saved it as whatever you want and as a CSS, and in notepad you will have to change the file type that it will save as to All Files, then just add '.css' to the end of the name. Then you have to incorporate this into a different script using CSS, you will either have to link to it or import it into the script. SEO Services

This post has been edited by davidjoshua11: Feb 15 2010, 11:06 AM