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 Editing necessary files to make your .css work instead of the AdminCP 
Description: This article explains which files to edit, and which code to delete, or edit in order to get your .css file to work with the template.
Author: Outofmymindyo
Date: Mon Aug 11, 2003 11:12 am
Type: HowTo
Keywords: .css, css, template, styles, style, templates, editing templates
Category: Styles
I would recommend starting with a fresh copy of subSilver, completely unedited, as it ensures this will work.

1. Open overall_header.tpl and select and delete the following code:

Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
/*
  The original subSilver Theme for phpBB version 2+
  Created by subBlue design
  http://www.subBlue.com

  NOTE: These CSS definitions are stored within the main page body so that you can use the phpBB2
  theme administration centre. When you have finalised your style you could cut the final CSS code
  and place it in an external file, deleting this section to save bandwidth.
*/

/* General page style. The scroll bar colours only visible in IE5.5+ */
body {
   background-color: {T_BODY_BGCOLOR};
   scrollbar-face-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
   scrollbar-highlight-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
   scrollbar-shadow-color: {T_TR_COLOR2};
   scrollbar-3dlight-color: {T_TR_COLOR3};
   scrollbar-arrow-color:  {T_BODY_LINK};
   scrollbar-track-color: {T_TR_COLOR1};
   scrollbar-darkshadow-color: {T_TH_COLOR1};
}

/* General font families for common tags */
font,th,td,p { font-family: {T_FONTFACE1} }
a:link,a:active,a:visited { color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a:hover      { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }
hr   { height: 0px; border: solid {T_TR_COLOR3} 0px; border-top-width: 1px;}

/* This is the border line & background colour round the entire page */
.bodyline   { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 1px {T_TH_COLOR1} solid; }

/* This is the outline round the main forum tables */
.forumline   { background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border: 2px {T_TH_COLOR2} solid; }

/* Main table cell colours and backgrounds */
td.row1   { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR1}; }
td.row2   { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR2}; }
td.row3   { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR3}; }

/*
  This is for the table cell above the Topics, Post & Last posts on the index.php page
  By default this is the fading out gradiated silver background.
  However, you could replace this with a bitmap specific for each forum
*/
td.rowpic {
      background-color: {T_TD_COLOR2};
      background-image: url(templates/subSilver/images/{T_TH_CLASS3});
      background-repeat: repeat-y;
}

/* Header cells - the blue and silver gradient backgrounds */
th   {
   color: {T_FONTCOLOR3}; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-weight : bold;
   background-color: {T_BODY_LINK}; height: 25px;
   background-image: url(templates/subSilver/images/{T_TH_CLASS2});
}

td.cat,td.catHead,td.catSides,td.catLeft,td.catRight,td.catBottom {
         background-image: url(templates/subSilver/images/{T_TH_CLASS1});
         background-color:{T_TR_COLOR3}; border: {T_TH_COLOR3}; border-style: solid; height: 28px;
}

/*
  Setting additional nice inner borders for the main table cells.
  The names indicate which sides the border will be on.
  Don't worry if you don't understand this, just ignore it :-)
*/
td.cat,td.catHead,td.catBottom {
   height: 29px;
   border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
th.thHead,th.thSides,th.thTop,th.thLeft,th.thRight,th.thBottom,th.thCornerL,th.thCornerR {
   font-weight: bold; border: {T_TD_COLOR2}; border-style: solid; height: 28px;
}
td.row3Right,td.spaceRow {
   background-color: {T_TR_COLOR3}; border: {T_TH_COLOR3}; border-style: solid;
}

th.thHead,td.catHead { font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px; border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px; }
th.thSides,td.catSides,td.spaceRow    { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 1px; }
th.thRight,td.catRight,td.row3Right    { border-width: 0px 1px 0px 0px; }
th.thLeft,td.catLeft     { border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; }
th.thBottom,td.catBottom  { border-width: 0px 1px 1px 1px; }
th.thTop    { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 0px; }
th.thCornerL { border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; }
th.thCornerR { border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; }

/* The largest text used in the index page title and toptic title etc. */
.maintitle   {
   font-weight: bold; font-size: 22px; font-family: "{T_FONTFACE2}",{T_FONTFACE1};
   text-decoration: none; line-height : 120%; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}

/* General text */
.gen { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE3}px; }
.genmed { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; }
.gensmall { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE1}px; }
.gen,.genmed,.gensmall { color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
a.gen,a.genmed,a.gensmall { color: {T_BODY_LINK}; text-decoration: none; }
a.gen:hover,a.genmed:hover,a.gensmall:hover   { color: {T_BODY_HLINK}; text-decoration: underline; }

/* The register, login, search etc links at the top of the page */
.mainmenu      { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT} }
a.mainmenu      { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK};  }
a.mainmenu:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }

/* Forum category titles */
.cattitle      { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px ; letter-spacing: 1px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}}
a.cattitle      { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.cattitle:hover{ text-decoration: underline; }

/* Forum title: Text and link to the forums used in: index.php */
.forumlink      { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE3}px; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink    { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.forumlink:hover{ text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }

/* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */
.nav         { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}
a.nav         { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.nav:hover      { text-decoration: underline; }

/* titles for the topics: could specify viewed link colour too */
.topictitle,h1,h2   { font-weight: bold; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }
a.topictitle:link   { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK}; }
a.topictitle:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.topictitle:hover   { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}; }

/* Name of poster in viewmsg.php and viewtopic.php and other places */
.name         { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT};}

/* Location, number of posts, post date etc */
.postdetails      { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE1}px; color : {T_BODY_TEXT}; }

/* The content of the posts (body of text) */
.postbody { font-size : {T_FONTSIZE3}px; line-height: 18px}
a.postlink:link   { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_LINK} }
a.postlink:visited { text-decoration: none; color : {T_BODY_VLINK}; }
a.postlink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color : {T_BODY_HLINK}}

/* Quote & Code blocks */
.code {
   font-family: {T_FONTFACE3}; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color: {T_FONTCOLOR2};
   background-color: {T_TD_COLOR1}; border: {T_TR_COLOR3}; border-style: solid;
   border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px
}

.quote {
   font-family: {T_FONTFACE1}; font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; color: {T_FONTCOLOR1}; line-height: 125%;
   background-color: {T_TD_COLOR1}; border: {T_TR_COLOR3}; border-style: solid;
   border-left-width: 1px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px
}

/* Copyright and bottom info */
.copyright      { font-size: {T_FONTSIZE1}px; font-family: {T_FONTFACE1}; color: {T_FONTCOLOR1}; letter-spacing: -1px;}
a.copyright      { color: {T_FONTCOLOR1}; text-decoration: none;}
a.copyright:hover { color: {T_BODY_TEXT}; text-decoration: underline;}

/* Form elements */
input,textarea, select {
   color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
   font: normal {T_FONTSIZE2}px {T_FONTFACE1};
   border-color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
}

/* The text input fields background colour */
input.post, textarea.post, select {
   background-color : {T_TD_COLOR2};
}

input { text-indent : 2px; }

/* The buttons used for bbCode styling in message post */
input.button {
   background-color : {T_TR_COLOR1};
   color : {T_BODY_TEXT};
   font-size: {T_FONTSIZE2}px; font-family: {T_FONTFACE1};
}

/* The main submit button option */
input.mainoption {
   background-color : {T_TD_COLOR1};
   font-weight : bold;
}

/* None-bold submit button */
input.liteoption {
   background-color : {T_TD_COLOR1};
   font-weight : normal;
}

/* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover
  help line. This is actually a text box, but if set to be the same
  colour as the background no one will know ;)
*/
.helpline { background-color: {T_TR_COLOR2}; border-style: none; }

/* Import the fancy styles for IE only (NS4.x doesn't use the @import function) */
@import url("templates/subSilver/formIE.css");
-->
</style>


In overall_header.tpl replace

Code:
<!-- link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/subSilver/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css" -->


with

Code:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="templates/subSilver/{T_HEAD_STYLESHEET}" type="text/css">


Following added/updated by [FON]BlackHole
In order for your CSS file to take formatting control over ALL pages within the template you also need to edit the following files in the same manner you edit overall_header.tpl in the article above:

simple_header.tpl - This file controls the header for the forum previews you see at the bottom of a page when posting a reply to a topic thread

/admin/page_header.tpl - This file controls the header for the administration section of the forums

By making those same changes to these additional two files your entire site should take on your CSS file changes.
End Update

You will now be able to use the .css file for the editing of colors.

And then do similar changes with simple_header.tpl (for popups and topic review css) and admin/page_header.tpl (for admin control panel css)

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