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AdminCP CSS

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Submitted by Sephiroth, 4th April 2007, 4:12:51 AM

I dunno if this has ever been brought up, so I'll just go ahead and bring it up..

The default css stylesheet applied to the administration control panel applies a black text to forms, HOWEVER, it doesn't do anything about background color, so on some setups like mine, you gotta squint to read your black text on a dark-background in your text areas and text inputs.. I dunno, this is pretty easy to fix myself, but I don't want to be having to do that everytime MyBB comes out with another release.

7 Comments

  1. Can't you already use CSS in the AdminCP?

    Ryan Gordon, 4th April 2007, 5:11:50 AM

  2. Tikitiki: I'm talking about the CSS APPLIED to the ACP itself.

    Sephiroth, 4th April 2007, 7:38:44 PM

  3. I know, that is what I meant. Infact you can already edit the CSS APPLIED to the ACP itself. Just check admin/styles/Axiom/stylesheet.css

    Anyway the new ACP will allow for more flexibility when theming it.

    Ryan Gordon, 5th April 2007, 1:59:55 AM

  4. Sephiroth said:
    > but I don't want to be having to do that everytime MyBB comes
    > out with another release.

    The current Admin CP themes can usually be applied on any MyBB version up to and not including 1.4 without any major problems.

    The new Admin CP will have a new ACP theme system which will obviously not be compatible with 1.2 and any previous version. I don't expect you'll need to keep on changing the Admin CP theme each time you upgrade (minor versions I mean)

    DennisTT, 5th April 2007, 5:51:27 AM

  5. I'd love to see what the new theming style is..

    I have some good ideas, but would like to see the "new" template system, before making a comment. ;)

    Lopalong, 5th April 2007, 1:01:18 PM

  6. It's not really a template system.

    We have designed a set of classes which generate all the elements on the pages - the page itself, header, footer, side bar items etc.

    With out theming system, it's designed for those with PHP experience. You can take those classes and extend them in your own Admin CP style.php.

    For example:
    --
    class Page extends DefaultPage
    {
    function output_header($title)
    {
    echo $title;
    }
    }
    --

    That would override our header function with yours and MyBB would use it instead.

    Chris Boulton, 7th April 2007, 11:50:08 PM

  7. What I really meant was, sure, one could edit admin/styles/Axiom/stylesheet.css to fix the input problem, but with each point release, whatever I edited, reverts back to default, and therefore I need to reapply my edits again, just so I could see what I'm typing in text boxes and the like..

    You guys force a black text color on the input boxes and select dropdowns, but you don't do anything about backgrounds. So the way my computer is set up, text boxes have a dark, greyish blue background, and black text in this is very hard to read without straining your eyes.

    Sephiroth, 11th April 2007, 4:16:34 PM

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