You can be assured that Bootstrap covers every browser that you need to be
concerning yourself with :-).
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
wrote:
> Many thanks to you both!
>
> It’s been a long while since I’ve dealt with HTML and CSS, and HTML 5 is
> new to me, as is the Bootstrap thing (though I like it a lot), and I’m
> almost wholly unfamiliar with CSS 3. I’m a cautious somewhat elderly guy,
> and I’m more than a little nervous about whether there may be a lot of
> folks using old enough browsers that some of this stuff won’t work well,
> but I’m hoping that Bootstrap has taken that into account. I have several
> pages that seem close to ready for prime time.
>
> I may wind up leaving the headers alone, anyway, but it was frustrating me
> that I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t change the font color. Thanks
> again!
>
> Theophan
>
>
> > On Oct 12, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That rule would then become *extremely* hard to over-ride should the
> > need arise. IIRC, even an inline style would get trumped by this rule.
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
> wrote:
> >> Many thanks!
> >>
> >> I tried “.navbar a” and it didn’t work, but it worked when I added
> "!important", so I figured there must be Bootstrap rules that are a lot
> more specific so they’re being used. So I removed the “!important” and
> tried “.navbar ul.navbar-nav li a” and that seemed to work for most of it,
> and “.navbar a.navbar-brand” for the “Brand.” It looks like I have a lot
> more selectors to find and use, but at least now I think I know how to
> proceed.
> >>
> >> Would there be a disadvantage to just using the
> >>
> >> .navbar a {
> >> color:white !important;
> >> }
> >> though? Sure would be easy.
> >>
> >> Thanks again!
> >>
> >> Theophan
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Oct 12, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Ryan Reese <sportsdude.re...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You need to add the color:#FFF to your anchor rules. It's using #777
> from
> >>> your other styles.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I’m trying to build a very small web site for my church’s capital
> >>>> campaign, using Bootstrap, and I can’t change the color of the font
> in the
> >>>> header. I put a style in the <head> section that changes the
> background
> >>>> color fine, but the same selector doesn’t change the font color:
> >>>>
> >>>> .navbar {
> >>>> background-color:#BB2F00;
> >>>> color:white;
> >>>> }
> >>>>
> >>>> I’m not very good navigating my way through the tools, but when I
> tried to
> >>>> see, using Firefox Developer Edition, what was actually going on, it
> really
> >>>> looked to me as though the rule that was being followed was indeed
> that the
> >>>> color was FFF, but my eye says it’s still the gray that Bootstrap
> specifies.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here’s the test page: http://raisingthecross.org/navColorTest.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>>
> >>>> Theophan
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> >>>
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