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I am wondering how you can change the text weight in module positions. From my site http://www.tribunalwow.com you can see a module on the right called "Latest Loot." I'm wondering how to make the text within bold.

Firstly I really like what you have done with the customization!

As to teh problem you mention the font is already bolded but I think difficult to see because it is so small.

I did a little bit of digging and found this:

www.tribunalwow.com/plugins/content/ item...emplates/wowhead.css

.purplename, .quality4 {

color: #a335ee;

font-weight: bold;

}

Which is the class that controls the purple headings.

Perhaps you could try ramping up the font size a little? I also zoomed teh font szie in firefox just to be sure (hit CTRL + a few times) and it definitely looks bold when it gets bigger.

Let me know if you need more help.

Cheers.

Big Bear wrote:
Firstly I really like what you have done with the customization!

..........

Cheers.

Deleted to save space, that css file is for the mouse-over only. I've tried a plethora of things to get it to bold out, which would be editing the module php file itself; to editing the template.css for BlackBearPro. I've found that line 53 is the starter for the module boxes.
"#left .moduletable, #left .moduletable_menu, #right .moduletable, #right .moduletable_menu, #right .moduletable_text, #left .moduletable_text {"

however it doesn't want to read the

"font-weight:bold;" when you put it there.

We have even tried editing the class for the file to give it a new class in the css file. We made the text red for starters to test, and they turned red, next step was to add the weight, and it just didn't take.

Hi Thundaballs,

I'm getting the feeling you didn't really try any of the things I suggested above...

Actually that css file is not just for the mouse over because the firefox web developers tool bar tells me it's applied to the purple text, tooltip or no tooltip.

A question for you: How do you suppose it gets it's purple color....?

That's right - I already checked all the CSS applied to your site before I made the first post and the only declaration of #A335EE; is in wowhead.css for that class.

If you still don't believe me I suggest you also do what I did and hit 'control +' a few times in firefox and you will SEE that it is ALREADY bold as I did, and as I already said above. I kinda gave you all the clues the first time...

I suggest you try adding something like:

font-size: 12px;

to the purple class in wowhead.css and see if that makes any difference.

Don't beat your head against my template css at this stage either - It's important to understand with CSS that the most recently declared style will override a previously declared style.

Looking at your template source code I can see that wowhead.css gets called way down the bottom of the page near the end of the source code - the template css gets called in the head of the doc where it should - this means that wowhead will override template.css - A font size or a font weight you apply to the right column in the template css will be overridden in wowhead.css if a conflicting style is included there.

But this is not your problem - please trust me, the text is already bold it's just so small that you cannot see it. Work on that premise first and work to increase the font size.

wowhead.css has plenty of font size declarations - such as one for 9pt which is pretty small...

Try my first suggestion to add a specific font size to the purple class - if that fails try increasing all teh font sizes a little bit in wowhead and see what that does.

Save a backup of wowhead.css so you can easily step back!

Two indispensable tools:

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

getfirebug.com/

I'm not running firebug right now as I get buy on the first one - but firebug gives even more info when required.

The firefox web developers tool bar saves hours of pain when working on these types of problems...

**feels like an ass** I don't know too much about php/css coding. :(

But I'm digging now to see if I can find it, you're right though. It is bolded (of course you're right you write this stuff). Just trying to find the params or what have you change the font sizing for just the purple part.

/digs at css file

thanks for your help :D

lol - don't feel like an ass - your site looks BLOODY AWESOME.

Sorry I might have come across slightly grumpy - for some reason I woke up at 4.00am and I'm still feeling blurry eyed. It's 5.00 am now here in New Zealand.

The only comment I would make about using those ultra cool tool-tip thingys and the sw-menu etc is that they add a whole heap of code to your layout which can make it a nightmare to trouble shoot.

I reckon try that font size decleration in wowhead just for purple - if that doesnt fix it then try what I suggested and backup wowhead and then make all the font sizes in wowhead a bit bigger and see what happens!

If all that fails email me and give me FTP and I'll try some things.

More-so feel like an ass because you brought common sense into play with your question. A buddy of mine and I spent about 2 hours on it tonight trying to work it out, that's when I decided to post.

I've only found 2 instances of that colour. Good morning by the way, 2:40am here in RADelaide lol. None of them are clear-cut to what I'm used to seeing.

.q4, .q4 a { color: #a335ee !important } /* purple/epic */

.purplename, .quality4 { color: #A335EE; font-weight: bold; }

second one was the winner!

Man, that was the most painful CSS findings ever. Thanks heaps though.

~Shawn

Awesome - Go Adelaide!

When you're done making your site send us a message and we'll put it into the JoomlaBear showcase.

Sweet, will do :D Just trying to find a decent form module that allows posting to a phpbb3 forum. I would almost convert to Fireboard if there was a module that supported that lol.

Don't convert to fireboard! The project appears to have died - I'm rebuilding JoomlaBear over the next week and one of my big tasks is finding a Fireboard replacement.

Are you using phpBB? I found jFusion which appears to let you merge the login and am looking forward to testing this www.jfusion.org

What are your thoughts on phpBB3?

I've always used phpBB, always. I've tried using fireboard, didn't like the admin menu. A lot of using a board comes down to that for me. I'm really comfortable with the options in phpbb3. I am by no means a board guru, so I'd say do your own research first. But as far as easy setup, and getting things going, phpBB is nice.

Although, integrating it into joomla, I really haven't found a nice bridge. So I'll definately look at the JFusion thingo.

Thanks for the tips and recommendation.

I think I'm going with phpBB but scratching my head as to how I'm going to migrate all thedata... (posts)

jFusion seems good - it will bring over the entire user list.

I tried rokbridge once, the issue I had with it was that users needed to create their account via phpbb3 user creation, and even then it seemed a bit tricky.

Although now that I've worked with Joomla a bit more, I'm thinking I may have miffed the install somewhere along the lines thusly it not working properly.

Looking at JFusion my only worry would be importing the user DB to Joomla. I'm sure once its all setup that it will be fine to the new registrants, I just don't want to cause any issues with the current users. However if this provides the fix that we seem to be looking for...

Right now there are actually 2 CMS' installed on my site. One being Joomla!, the other being EQDKPlus. EQDKPlus has a built in bridge you can use for PhpBB3, however not for Joomla! So, that being said, I wonder if having it bridged with its back-end to PhpBB3, will it seamlessly bridge to Joomla via the PhpBB3-Joomla! JFusion bridge? (I know this is a question you cannot answer, but input would be cool, you definitely have more PHP knowledge than I do! lol.

I have heard not so good things about the rokbridge option...

Did you check the jFusion instal video?
vimeo.com/2650573?pg=embed&sec=2650573&hd=1
(It's on the jFusion site as well but much better in high quality at vimeo.)

Looks like they have it all pretty much sorted and I'm thinking phpBB/Joomla/jFusion is the way to go for us.

Will let you know how I get on.

LOL my php is actually really sketchy! I work with my younger brother who is pretty sharp with php (that always makes us sound really young but I'm actually 35 and he's 24). Anyway I'm more inclined towards graphics/css so we do alright together :)