Ranking Method, Categories and Newest Members menu colour change?

[mrix2000]

Hello all, I would like to change the left menu colour backgrounds of the default theme, I would also like to change the white background within the menu, I have logged into the admin and have gone to settings and used the user.css file but it was empty? is this correct? do I need to add css code to this file to enable changes?
If anyone could tell me what the code is I need to apply that would be fantastic.
Thanks all
mrix

 

[cajkan]

Hello Mrix, yes feel free to add your custom code into your user.css

You can also create custom.css or any other name.
Add link to this file in the head section (into your wrapper) :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="skins/{$skin_name}/custom.css">

Make sure that you added this link after other css files.
Thanks!

 

[Basti]

Yes user.css if the file which is used to overwrite core theme css changes. You would look up the proper code in screen.css and place it into user.css to overwrite default attributes

The blue heading would be

h3.heading  {
    background: #2b567f;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 5px 0 5px 5px;
    margin: 5px 0;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #000;
    border-radius:5px;
}

The link backgrounds would be

.category_menu li,.topref li{
    margin: 1px 0;
    padding: 3px 3px 3px 20px;
}

By default it has no background, so you would need to extend this rule

 

[mrix2000]

Huge thanks for the replies both.

By default it has no background, so you would need to extend this rule

I would like to change the background colour which lies between the menu`s to another colour, everything that`s behind the links and surrounding ie the white section that spreads down the left column etc.

Thanks
mrix