Somebody help…Please!

  • Resolved justanotherpoet

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    12 years, 5 months ago

    I know I shouldn’t be posting this twice but I’m desparate and this issue is driving me NUTS! I have a poetry site at https://www.burstingplethora.com and I’m having some issues with formatting poetry. Specifically, when I try to indent specific lines in a given poem using the “Preformatted” option in the post editor, the lines are formatted properly, Yes, but this ugly blue box appears around any line or block of text I apply the “Preformatted” option to. I want to know how to totally obliterate this blue box. The “Preformatted” option works fine except for the blue box issue. I am using the Suffusion theme. If you go to my site, you will not be able to see the blue box I am talking about because all of the posts are scheduled to be published on 1 July 2012. That’s the kick off date for my magazine and I really need to get this issue resolved by then. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  • Have you asked this question on Suffusion’s forum? https://aquoid.com/forum/
    I’m running Suffusion as well and would be glad to help if I could see an example of what’s misbehaving, but you’ll probably get faster and more accurate answers from Sayontan.

    Thread Starter justanotherpoet

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    I’ll try the Suffusion forum. Thank you. But in the meantime I’m gonna publish a test post just to show you (and anybody else) what I’m talking about. I’m gonna publish it right now.

    Do you feel comfortable changing the CSS? If so, go into style.css and look for pre { } and code pre { } sections.

    Around lines 104 and 99 you’ll see those sections. Change your border to 0px, and your background color to #fff or none depending on how you have the rest of your post formatting set up.

    That should remove those blue boxes.

    Thread Starter justanotherpoet

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    Just did it. Click on the Blog page and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Thanks again.

    Yes, the style.css instructions I just posted should do the trick. What you are seeing as ugly blue, I’m seeing as ugly gray. #F7F7F7 and #DDD to be exact. Changing those to #FFFFFF will turn them both white.

    Good luck, and let me know if you need further help!

    Thread Starter justanotherpoet

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    Yeah I feel comfortable. I’ll give it a shot right now.

    Messaging you on Facebook btw.

    Thread Starter justanotherpoet

    (@justanotherpoet)

    I’m guessing this is what your talking about?

    `code, pre {
    font-family: “Courier New”, Courier, Monaco, “Lucida Console”, monospace;
    overflow: auto;
    background-color: #F7F7F7;
    }
    pre {
    padding: 1em;
    line-height: 1.5em;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    margin: 1.5em 0;

    bingo – change the background-color to #FFFFFF in that one
    and the border to 1px solid #fff; in the second set

    now if that does not work exactly as you wish, there are more .css files which may contain this formatting, tied to the skinning package that you’ve chosen to use (light green, I’d guess?)

    These may not be editable from within the admin panel, but should be reachable by FTP. To override these, the cleanest way is to make a child theme directory and edit from there – or so I’m told. I haven’t actually tried that with Suffusion. I have, however, found the skin sets and edited THEIR .css directly via FTP.

    Thread Starter justanotherpoet

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    Issue resolved. Thanks caseyfern.

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