Change "unused background" color

  • Resolved tobywallis

    (@tobywallis)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Bob. Thanks for a great plugin. I can *almost* make it do exactly what I want!

    I have a website width 1000px and I want the topbar to be at the top of the screen and stay with the page – so when you scroll down it scrolls up out of view. I can do this with position:relative and I can get the topbar width 100px and centered which is what I need.

    The only problem is that when I set this up, the ara *outside* the web page, which in my design is dark grey, has a white bar across the whole screen. I (obviously) want it to be the same colour as the background.

    I tried changing it to position:fixed even though this would keep the toolbar on the screen even when you scroll down, but in this case I can’t get it to position itself in the centre.

    I would *love* to know how to make the white bit transparent… I have a horrible feeling it might be something unchangeable in the jQuery scripting?

    The URL is https://greenhowards.org.uk.gridhosted.co.uk/

    Thanks for any help!

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  • Plugin Author rfgoetz

    (@rfgoetz)

    The issue is that the TopBar’s margin’s need to be changed to make the TopBar wider.

    Option A) Try changing the width from 1000px to 1600px (most likely in CSS Option C).

    Option B) Also, if you have the left/right margins to be -300px — the white goes away. The bad news is that the plugin only allows you to adjust the top/bottom — not the left right. I can add left/right in a future release. You *may* be able to add this to CSS Option A to adjust the margins:

    margin: 0px -300px 0px -300px;

    Let me know if either Option A or B work.

    Bob

    Thread Starter tobywallis

    (@tobywallis)

    Hi Bob. Thanks for that. Both the options sort of work – but they aren’t fluid.

    But more importantly, they make the topbar stretch right across the screen (I can do that with width=100% in Option C) whereas what I want is for the topbar to be the same width as the page (i.e. 1000px) and the rest to be transparent or the same colour as the background.

    Any other ideas? If not I’ll have to go with the bar being 100% wide. Or change the background colour to white, I suppose…

    Plugin Author rfgoetz

    (@rfgoetz)

    I am not a CSS expert. It appears your default background is white. Can you try adding this to your theme’s stylesheet (GHnewmain002):

    body {background-color:#262626};

    One more option. Create an image that is 1600px wide and the same height as your TopBar. 300px on each side is the background color you want, the middle 1000px is your bar color (rgb(68, 68, 68)). Then have the TopBar use that as a background image.

    Again, let me know if this works.

    Thread Starter tobywallis

    (@tobywallis)

    Bob – you *are* an expert! That sorted it perfectly. Thanks for the hint. In my theme the background colour is specified in a different tag which appears to be the same as the body but actuallly is one level higher. So the body background (unspecified, so default FFFFFF) was showing.

    Brilliant – can’t thank you enough. It’s been keeping me awake nights!

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    Plugin Author rfgoetz

    (@rfgoetz)

    Really glad we were able to work it out!

    Best wishes,

    Bob

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