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Help a completely clueless noob change some colors (piefed.social)

submitted 5 days ago by HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social to c/piefed_css@piefed.social

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I changed my theme to the Hercules 1982 theme. Its very nice, other than the colors are a bit off for my taste. I'd like to change those.

I managed to change the background color to what I wanted, by the cunning use of copypasting a part of a css tutorial thing. But turns out, copypasting doesn't work for everything. I'm a total newbie, I drive trucks for a living, I have no idea what I'm doing with these computing machine things lol.

Anyway, I'd like to change the text color and the title bar background color, the thing that has the Piefed logo, communities, explore, account and donate links. I tried looking for tutorials and such, but I think I'm looking for wrong things or maybe I'm just underestimating my own stupidity (very highly likely). Anyone wanna help me?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

FYI: The browser's Web Developer Console is super helpful to poke at things. You right-click on an element and choose "Inspect". And a tab will open with something called Inspector or Elements. And you can then mess with the styles and change them around to see what you like. It's temporary changes, so a refresh will revert everything. Somewhere below the HTML there will also be an overview with how to access the element. Unfortunately it's not super straightforward to make sense of it without prior knowledge of CSS.

I'd say the navbar is something like this:

div.navbar { background-color: aqua; }  
.nav-link { color: red; }

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

The browser’s Web Developer Console is super helpful to poke at things. You right-click on an element and choose “Inspect”.

This much I knew, but sadly that's where my knowledge ended lol. Its all hieroglyphs for me haha. But I'll keep poking around and trying stuff, its not like I can break anything :-D

I’d say the navbar is something like this:

div.navbar { background-color: aqua; }

This worked, thanks!