Forum:Monobook Help

Please click here for the current revision of MediaWiki:Monobook.css on my wiki. Then click here for an example of my wiki's home page in Monobook. I just can't seem to get the text to be white, or the search to be link-colored, like it is in Oasis. Can someone tell me what to do? I've tried everything I can think of, but it either does nothing, changes the wrong area, or makes the background white and leaves the text black.

ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 12:31, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Add the following code to your "MediaWiki:Monobook.css":

 input#searchInput { background-color: AddBackgroundColorHere; color: AddTextColorHere; }
 * If this doesn't help change it to

 input#searchInput { background-color: AddBackgroundColorHere !important; color: AddTextColorHere !important; }
 * and replace the two placeholders with your favorite color's hex code.
 * Regards, -- Weas-El ✉  13:33, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * By the way, it's not possible to read everything on the CSS pages in Oasis. Changing the code's background color to e.g. dark gray by adding

 .css.source-css { background-color: #404040 !important;
 * to your "MediaWiki:Wikia.css" would fix that. -- Weas-El ✉  13:40, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * It didn't work either way, and you didn't tell me how I get the main block of text to be white. And inter-wiki and external links are blue instead of green.


 * ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 17:16, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * In your Monobook.css, You have:

input#searchInput { background-color:#000000; border-color:#aaaaaa; font-color:008000 }
 * Replace.
 * For the content to be in white text color, add  to:

background: #000000; border-color: #aaaaaa; }
 * 1) content {
 * For link colors, add:

color: #008000; }	color: #008000; }
 * 1) bodyContent a.extiw,
 * 2) bodyContent a.extiw:active {
 * 1) bodyContent a.external {
 * Or a slighty different one to distinguish it those from other links. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 17:27, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and what is the color code (like "#whatever;") for my wiki's green links?


 * ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 19:20, August 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * You appear to be using, which you can also just use   for.


 * When I look really closely at plain-green-colored text and a link, I can see a slight difference. But I suppose it doesn't matter that much. I can hardly tell them apart in Monobook. Thanks for the help.


 * ROADS! Roads! (Don't forget it!) 19:29, August 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * Jumping in the middle of the discussion.
 * green is different from #0f0
 * #0f0 is called lime
 * That's one of the strange surprises I had when learning about colors.
 * Your use of

a { color: #008000; } is a bit hard on the eyes for some of us, since it's a very dark background.
 * 01:33, August 17, 2011 (UTC)