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#mbCategories dt a { color:white; }
#mbCategories dd a { color:black; }

Now I'm running into a little problem that turn out to be quite complicated

I want to have a design where in the menu bar on the left the background of the top titles is black and the text is white. but the test of the links below is black on a white background. That's simple but hard to describe so I attach a little screen copy below.

I managed to do that through modifying the theme.css of my theme.

When I try to do the same thing for the categories menu (mbCategories) I run into a problem
the title is a link "Categories" and every option below is also a link.
If I change the link color to black than the title becomes black on black, if I change the link color to white than the menu options are white on white... problem!
And I cannot find something that would identify the Title as opposed to the menu options, a class would do that but there are none.

Any help or suggestion?

Thanks

Hi lcavalie,

lcavalie wrote:

- how do I duplicate the clear theme and make it appear inside the application under a new name?

1) copy the "themes/clear" directory as "themes/mytheme"
2) edit themes/mytheme/themeconf.inc.php
3) in the header comment, change the line

Theme Name: clear

into

Theme Name: My Nice Theme

4) in the PHP code, change the line

  'name'  => 'clear',

into

  'name'  => 'mytheme',

5) go to admin>configuration>themes and "My Nice Theme" is available in the Inactive themes block