Re: [IUG] View and Export - Submit results to Screen: brief display, Pro-Cite, End-Note, MARC

["Margaret Peloquin" <peloquin at austincc dot edu>]

Thanks for the suggestion, Bob.  I didn't think to look at the page source 
for those results.  Now I see the divs that can be styled.  I knew someone 
would come up with a solution.  Sometimes it helps to have another 
perspective.

Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu> said:

> At 02:19 PM 02/21/2008, Margaret Peloquin wrote:
> >I've run into an unusual problem since we went to webpac pro.  From the
> >View & Export screen, if one chooses Full-Display and submits to the
> >Screen, all is well.  If, however, one chooses any of the other options
> >-  Brief Display, Pro-Cite, End-Note,  or MARC and submits to the
> >Screen, the results are displayed with the page background color which
> >on our system is the college's web dark blue.  Needless to say, the
> >results are next to impossible to read.
> >
> >I cannot find a file/page to edit for these results that would enable me
> >to change the background to white.  Has anyone else run into this issue
> >and solved the problem.  Perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious.
> 
> 
> It's all in the CSS;  the file you edit is your style sheet.  The 
> background on this screen is dark blue because that's what's in the 
> style sheet for the body element.  The reason other pages do not 
> appear this way is because the content in other pages lives in tables 
> that have their own background color, whereas the content for this 
> screen lives in the body.  Your could change the color of the text so 
> it's readable on the blue background, but I think a more elegant 
> solution would be give the divs that the content lives in a white 
> background.  One way to pretty things up a bit would be to add the 
> following to your style sheet:
> 
> .exportHeading {
>          background: white;
>          color:#800000;
>          font-weight:bold;
>          margin-left: 6em;
>          margin-right: 6em;
>          margin-bottom:-1em;
>          padding-left:.5em;
>          padding-top:.5em;
>          }
> 
> .exportBrief {
>          background: white;
>          color: black;
>          margin-left:6em;
>          margin-right: 6em;
>          margin-bottom:.25em;
>          padding:1em;
>          padding-left:3em;
>          }
> 
> 
> Bob Duncan
> 
> 
> 
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