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Highlight Categories Containing New/Unread Content
Hi I use vanilla with the categories page as the homepage. How can I have categories containing unread content be highlighted for my community members? Any help with this will be much appreciated by me and my members. Thank you.
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Sorry could you please be more specific as to what document I need to change and where and what to change it? Thanks it would be really helpful.
Also I have no idea where the CSS file is stored by vanilla.
@JonClink
css changes are made in the custom.css file.
If you are already using a custom theme, that will be in the custom theme's design folder (themes/customthemename/design).
If you are using the standard theme then you will need to create your own custom theme by following this:
http://vanillawiki.homebrewforums.net/index.php/A_Quick-Start_Guide_to_Creating_Themes
Your custom.css file only needs to contain the new rule(s) you want; everything else is handled by Vanilla.
Thanks guys. I found the file but what is the code that I use?
@JonClink
You're going to have to do a bit of reading!
This might help:
http://htmldog.com/guides/css/intermediate/classid/
I am trying to do a similar thing to the OP. My homepage is set to categories/all but every category is listed as read the class Unread never is never applied for some reason. Any ideas?
@Gary_Leeds
Vanilla version?
Theme?
Check in the custom.css file of your theme and see what, if any, rule there is for
.Item.Unread { background: }The version is 2.0.18.11, I have tried the default theme and the default embedfrendly theme.
The .Item.Unread is set in the css, that's not the issue, the forum is never assigning Unread class to the html of the categories, it's always 'Read'.
It works fine on posts inside categories just not on the list of categories on the home page.
Thanks.