I echo Tony's thanks for this, Alex - good teacher! Dickon
On Feb 1, 10:40 pm, Alex Hough <r.a.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Tony, > > Are there details anywhere (on the internet) of what other features of > > > TW can be customised? > > Yes. > On tiddlywiki.com there are some tips. Look under 'customisation' and follow > some links. > Moris Grey's tw help is very good -http://twhelp.tiddlyspot.com/ > For more formal info look athttp://tiddlywiki.org > > For example, how does one discover how to change the background of a > > > tiddler. > > Here's how i did it. > I used Firebug, a firefox extention. using it you can select part of the TW > and see the CSS code. You can even see the color specified. I cut and pasted > the existing code from firebug into the StyleSheet tiddler and changed the > colour to white. > You get firefug fromhttp://getfirebug.com/. It is well worth learning. If > you get chance to see someone using it i think it is helpful too. I was > lucky enough to see Simon McMannus at Osmosoft using it. > > I discovered it when I started to look at Shadow Tiddlers. It took a while > for me to get it, but basically these are the ones you need to change to > customise your TW. > > > > > Even better, can you explain why the above change works. Knowing the > > theory would be very helpful. > > The change works by overwriting the existing style code. Here is the code > again > > .editor textarea, .editor input { > background-color:white; > > } > > it is saying, "anything that has the class of editor and is a textarea, or > has the class of editor and input, make the background white. The dot (.) in > front of the word means 'class' > look at the W3 website for more info on CSS. -www.w3schools.com/*css*/ > > hope this helps > > Alex > > Tony > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 8:01 pm, Alex Hough <r.a.ho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Add this to stylesheet > > > > .editor textarea, .editor input { > > > background-color:white; > > > > } > > > > Alex > > > > On 28 January 2010 09:51, dickon <dickon.beving...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to change the colour of the background of my tiddlers when > > > > they are switched into edit mode. At present the background is a grey > > > > that is too dark to pick out the cursor, so that typing/editing is > > > > difficult. > > > > > I am looking through the colorpalette designations, and can't see > > > > which colour I am meant to be changing. > > > > > The tiddlywiki in question is my tiddlymanual at > > > >http://imp.peermore.com/imp/recipes/editorial/tiddlers.wiki > > > > > Sorry this is an obvious question, but I can't find documentation that > > > > identifies this element. > > > > > Dickon > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > > "TiddlyWiki" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<tiddlywiki%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <tiddlywiki%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<tiddlywiki%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > > > --http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "TiddlyWiki" group. > > To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<tiddlywiki%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > --http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
