Background colour in columns only

**adder667** · 04-12-2003, 02:29 PM

Hi,

Is there a way to change the background colour in the right or left colmns only?. Im trying to change a few colours here & there & at the moment to change the column colours i edit the stylesheet infoboxcontents (background color) file. This also changes the background colour of the new "products for blabla" box which i dont want because all my images have white backgrounds & it looks a bit poxy.
I will be grateful for any help here.

Thanks,
Adder.

**michael_s** · 04-12-2003, 05:27 PM

Sure, here is how you do it:

Add a new class to your stylesheet.css, I called it TD.column :

Code:

TD.column &#123;
  background&#58; #F8E2AF;
&#125;

Make the color #F8E2AF whatever you want.

Then edit your pages to reflect the new class. Find the section in your php files that looks like this:

Code:

&lt;!-- body //-->
&lt;table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
  &lt;tr>
    &lt;td width="&lt;?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top">&lt;table border="0" width="&lt;?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
&lt;!-- left_navigation //-->

and change it to look like this (note the new class="column" in the <td> tag). :

Code:

&lt;!-- body //-->
&lt;table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
  &lt;tr>
    &lt;td class="column" width="&lt;?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top">&lt;table border="0" width="&lt;?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
&lt;!-- left_navigation //-->

Add this to all the files in the /catalog dir that display the columns, and you are done.

**adder667** · 04-12-2003, 09:51 PM

Thanks Msasek.
Actually i dont think i explained myself correctly. Basically what i want to do is colour the info box contents background individually. i.e catagories background blue, reveiws background green etc.
Is there a way to do this? I have read the hints & tips but cant see anything that refers to this specifically.

Best Regards,
Adder.