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Since I went broadband, I switched to primarily using Firefox as my browser. All-in-all it's been going fine. I did notice one thing on this site, though. Usually when I use IE, the names of the mods and admins show up as blue and red. But when I use Firefox, they're bold black. Does anyone else get that? Is there something I need to change to get the colors right?
 
I get the same thing.
There are some small irregularities over IE but well worth the protection from spy-ware.
 
I installed 4 spyware programs recommended by WoodiE in another thread a couple of months ago, then switched to Firefox. Same problem. I thought something had gone wrong, so I uninstalled it and went back to IE. End of problem.
 
Thanks guys I'm aware of the problem and I know it has to do with the differences between firefox and IE. I just haven't had the time to sit and look at what the difference is and what I need to change to fix it, as of now FireFox at leasts bolds the staff member names and I've been content with that for the time being.

Seeing more and more users are using FireFox I'll start working on it as soon as I get a free minute.


-Michael
 
Well here's the code for WoddiE's name:

Code:
<a class="bigusername" href="member.php?u=1"><font color="FF6600"><b>WoodiE</b></font></a>

This right here is supposed to make it orange: <font color="FF6600">

The class "bigusername" is deifined in the style sheet as:

Code:
/* ***** styling for 'big' usernames on postbit etc. ***** */
.bigusername { font-size: 14pt; }

You'll notice there is no reference to color in the style sheet. Without the font color tags, it should show up black and then with the color tags it should show up BLUE or ORANGE depending on the user's status. At least this is the way it obviously works in IE.

If you look more at the HTML, the cell that hold's woodies name is using another class:

Code:
<td class="alt2" width="175">

And sure enough you check out the css code for alt2, and you see this:

Code:
.alt2, .alt2Active
{
	background-color: #EFEFEF;
	color: #000000;
}

color: #000000; makes everything black. In the case of firefox, when it sees a css color, it will use the css color instead of the color supplied by the <font color> tag.

You could fix it with <font class="boldorange">WoodiE</font> and then you'd have to add a type for "boldorange" in the css file. You'd also need "boldblue" for the mods.

[end nerdy html school]
 
EDIT: Doh. Longer and more comprehensive explanation above. LOL . . . Missed it by || that much. :D


Chances are it's because vBulletin is still using some legacy markup in some areas. For example:

<a href="member.php?u=13"><font color="0033FF"><strong>FastEddy</strong></font></a>

Note the font tags and the strong are nested inside the link tags. While this "fools" some browsers it is not W3C compliant markup. This should be resolved with style sheets, recognized by both the Moz browsers and IE:

<style>
a.link { color: #0033FF; }
</style>

<a href="member.php?u=13">FastEddy</a>

This applies the color to an "A" (link) tag.

Guess you can figger out what I do for a living. :D
 
bigfreak and rocknbil - you're both on the right track, however rocknbil you've hit the nail on the head as I knew it was the problem with the link colors and that's why it made it black. It's just a matter of trying to make admin and mod wrapped in their own class where I can style them as I want.

rocknbil you're alway right about vBulletin using old code as that's one thing I really hate about vBulletin - it's not the most compliant software out there :\


-Michael

EDIT: Ok guys I've fixed it OK!!!! :D

Anyways I had to wrap the admin and mods name in the dreaded span element so I could assign inline styles.
 
Oh Dear God. I was just hoping I could just like go Tools>Options>show things in color. That would have been sooooo much easier. But if it's fixed now, all the better. I might be weird, but I like seeing the admin and mod names in orange and blue. Let's me know who's peeking over my shoulder...

Oh, and just to throw gas on the fire, the admin and mod names aren't underlined like the rest of the users anymore....
 
I saw that months ago but I guess I am not as anal as some. LOL Bold was fine enough for me to find my friendly neighborhood mods.... Nice Job fixing it though.

sLY
 
Man, talk about fast fix. I didn't mean to make a big stink. I was just curious and posted my findings. It still looks good in IE (I really should switch to firefox.)
 
Heck, I'm the one who feels bad. I thought there was just something in my browser settings that was off. I thought I was the only tard who wasn't seeing the colors. I didn't know there would have to be a semi-recoding of the site to get it right. Thank you for indulging me WoodiE...
 
I didn't know it wasn't ok since I never use IE. I thought bold black was normal...

I should learn some java and html so I don't feel like such an idiot about web sites. I think I'll wait until my company sends me to school for it... until then, c, 4gl, cobal, it is!
 
DUUHHH what for U guys talk about???
Me drive car....Smash Boom CRASH Make noise!!!
me No no thing bout Fire FOX....
UUUUHHHHH What it is?
Why for it is beteer?


Damn you guys went on some techno-geek rampaging posts there......
this site is great I can learn Nitro tuning AND HTML.....if you can throw in some investment courses too I'd never leave this site.......
 
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