Font Location

I have been trying for 2 days now to change the font color on my site. I have went through all css files that came with the template Blackisblack ( which I love) that I bought, with no luck, and the base folder css files as well.. I also bought the skins for the chat and messenger as well. Here's my issue...My site is black and red so need to change font colors. Especially in chat, since the font there is to hard to see ( I know when you chat you can change colors) but the rest of the chat including room list is to hard to see.. I want to change the font color on the disignBoxFirst headers as well. Anyone that has used this template, can you point me to the right files?

The easiest way to find what css is controlling what is to use the inspect element that comes with the browsers; or at least with FireFox and Chrome.  There is a better tool for FireFox called Firebug; it is a add-on.  Turn off CSS caching in the admin.  Then you can simply right click on the item you wish to change, and choose Inspect Element or Inspect with Firebug.  You will see the classes and IDs, which stylesheet they are in, and the line number.  It is also interactive, so you can use it to play around with the css and see it instantly applied.  Reloading the page will clear out the temp changes.

One more thing, the inspect element will also show you when an attribute is being overwritten by other styles; you may be changing something that is overwritten elsewhere; another nice aspect of the inspect element for working on a template.

Okay had firebug already, and thanks for the update on turning off cache, but the color is controlled by a rgb number and not sure what the color codes in rgb are, so that I can turn it red. I looked online and all they give me is the basic #ffffff type. Also could this be why my settings in css files stop working and revert back to origninals..Example: I changed top menu to hover red and main menu stay white. Next day the menu was red and hover was white. Just now changed it back, and cleaned cache and now its all back to white even though css file still says hover will be red..ughhh Know I have a paranormal site and know this can't be the reason..rofl

RGB allows for transparency to be specified, but you don't need to use RGB values. You can use hex codes as well.

You can convert RGB to HEX and back with online tools like this one. http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/hex-to-rgb/color-converter.php

The 4'th digit you will sometimes see in rgb is the transparency level.

Anyhow. If your CSS is not holding, the only thing i can tell you is perhaps your editing the wrong css files, or you making the changes in firebug, but forgetting to make the actual changes to your files, or files are not saving due to permissions. Double check everything.

What I am doing is going file by file. I change a color code, download and check, if it does nothing I put old color back and move on. I do this all by hand and ftp back to site. Some changes have worked, like my top menu, but the changes disappear and revert back to original even though the css file still shows the changes..lol I also make sure all files downloaded as well.

Okay I left all caches un-clicked and changed my top menu to colors I wanted. Now lets see if they stay. Don't I need to keep the caches cleared to save server space though? I'm afraid to clear it now, as all will come undone..lol Still don't understand how it bypassed the css file last time and reverted without changing the code. But cross fingers...Now on to trying to change fonts.

cache issues, clear the caches in the admin and in your web browser and you may need to clear /cache and /cache_public.  The way I work on templates is to use Firebug to test out the changes in real time.  Once I have it the way I like, I then edit the file and load it back to the site and make sure I clear my browser cache and reload the page.  I have never had any issues.

Turning off the cache seems to have helped a lot. I found some of the font changes code in the default.css file, so getting closer..lol

Woohoo Now that I turned off the caches, everything is working just fine. Thanx everyone for the help!