cursor colour in DF_hardwired theme

**mario** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:37 am

I'm planning on installing the latest version of DF_hardwired theme. I had it in theme preview mode so the members could take a look at it. The thing the (older) members complained about the most is the cursor colour. When being somewhere in the middle of a text, they hardly can see the cursor position. Is there a way to change the colour of the cursor?? Also it's hardly to see which radio-button is selected. Can the colour of the dot be changed??

**Devon** · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:37 am

Unfortunately there is no way to change the cursor color without the use of a javascript to replace the cursor completely with something custom but it won't work for everyone so it's kind of useless.

Same goes for the radio button dot and radio button background. I was able to change the radio button background box color but not the dot itself and then only in IE and not FF.

The only thing I can suggest is to go into css and change the themes background color where appropriate. If you need help tracking down the classes in style.css that you need changed I can help with that.

**mario** · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:58 am

the most complaints were about the forums new topic, reply or quick reply box. Maybe the background of those can become a bit brighter. As I'm not that good with theming, maybe you could point me a bit in the right direction??

**Devon** · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 6:53 am

sure, in style.css modify the input box colors like so:

Code:

/* Form elements */
input.button, input.post, textarea, textarea.post, select {
    background-color : #FAFAFA;
    color: #000;
    font: normal 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    border-color : #5B5B5B;
    border-top-color: #5B5B5B;
    border-left-color: #5B5B5B;
    border-right-color: #5B5B5B;
    border-bottom-color: #5B5B5B;
    border-top-width: 1px;
    border-left-width: 1px;
    border-right-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
}

The background color and color attributes are what you want to change. I've gone ahead and changed the background to light grey and text to black for you. Just copy and paste the code over the current one.

**mario** · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:44 am

great, tnx Devon, will try it

**mario** · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:45 pm

added the change and must say: perfect, much, much better, tnx again Devon Smile