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Author Topic: A small tweak to DC forum for Firefox & K-meleon users (enhances visited links)  (Read 10729 times)

app103

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I like the look of the forum, and its colors but sometimes the lack of contrast between visited/unvisited links makes the visited links not obvious enough for me.

So I created a tweak to userContent.css that can be used in both Firefox and k-Meleon to change the visited link color from a lighter shade of blue, to purple. This doesn't affect all visited links on the site because that really looked bad. It just affects some of them...the ones I feel are the most important to have more contrast on.

Installing it is relatively simple.

Firefox:

In your Firefox profile folder is a userContent.css file (might not be there if you never set it up before, but there is an example file with a slightly different name)

Path to file:

on Win2k/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\(your name)\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random looking chars].default\chrome\userContent.css
on Vista/Win7: C:\Users\(your name)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random looking chars].default\chrome\userContent.css

  • Open the file in Notepad (or create the file if it doesn't exist) and paste in the code, save, and restart your browser.

K-Meleon:

  • Go to the Edit menu in K-Meleon, and under Configuration, select User-Defined Stylesheet. This will open a file named userContent.css in Notepad.
  • In the userContent.css file, go all the way to the bottom and locate the line that tells you not to edit anything below it.
  • Paste in the code right above that line and save the file.
  • Restart your browser.

The code:

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Code: CSS [Select]
  1. /* BEGIN DonationCoder tweaks */
  2. @-moz-document domain("donationcoder.com") {
  3.         a:visited{
  4.                 color: #aa00aa !important; /* make this one the color you want */
  5.         }
  6.         #topnavbar a:visited {
  7.                 color:#6495ED !important;
  8.         }
  9.         .maintab_active_back a:visited {
  10.                 color:white !important;
  11.         }
  12.         .maintab_back a:visited{
  13.                 color:white !important;
  14.         }
  15.         .catbg a:visited{
  16.                 color:blue !important;
  17.         }
  18.         .nav a:visited {
  19.                 color:#1E5164 !important;
  20.         }
  21.         .windowbgdc2 a:visited{
  22.                 color:#2E6FCC !important;
  23.         }
  24.         .mirrortab_back a:visited{
  25.                 color:white !important;
  26.         }
  27.         .mirrortab_active_back a:visited{
  28.                 color:white !important;
  29.         }
  30.         .titlebg a:visited{
  31.                 color:black !important;
  32.         }
  33.         #topbannerSubtitle a:visited{
  34.                 color:#d90000 !important;
  35.         }
  36. }
  37.  /* END DonationCoder tweaks */


Screenshot of what it does:

Before:
SNAG-00385.pngA small tweak to DC forum for Firefox & K-meleon users (enhances visited links)

After:
SNAG-00384.pngA small tweak to DC forum for Firefox & K-meleon users (enhances visited links)
« Last Edit: June 01, 2009, 12:53 AM by app103 »

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thanks app, makes life a lot easier, i use various firefox and windows themes so colours get a bit confused at times.  For any one else who cuts and pastes like I did, it put in a lot of # characters between lines which need to be removed.

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For any one else who cuts and pastes like I did, it put in a lot of # characters between lines which need to be removed.

Not if you click this little link:

SNAG-00386.png

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ahhh never thought of that little link lol  :-[

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Very nice!  :Thmbsup:

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hhmm, why not have Mouser add this styling to the forum css?
https://www.donation...Themes/Dc2/style.css

or am i missing the point?  :(
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Well, not everyone will like this so those that do want it can have it and those that don't, won't have to.

And it might introduce more people to the idea of taking control of their internet experience and customizing sites to suit their own preferences.

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Well, not everyone will like this so those that do want it can have it and those that don't, won't have to.
hm, thanks for the elaboration.
I didn't think of it that way.

Same idea as Greasemonkey, the addon for Firefox, right?
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This doesn't require any plugins and only uses CSS. And as far as performance, I have noticed that CSS site themes perform better in the usercontent.css file than when used in a greasemonkey script. (works faster without the annoying flash of the site's default theme)

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Very nice, app!  And yes, I also used "Select All" and copied it with numbers at first. Had to do it again, not realizing the numbers would invalidate the script. (Definitely not a CSS person here!)

But after correcting it the forums now are much easier to look at and see what has already been visited.

Thanks!

Jim