Submit Button Color Issue
Quote from Dana on March 20, 2022, 6:52 pmHi everyone,
I face a problem with the color of the submit button (see screenshot).
I have tried customizing the Asgaros appearance section, the theme button styles as well as the style css of the Asgaros plugin. But nothing ever affects the submit button style (I also cleared the cache, that shouldn’t be the problem).
I’d be grateful for any suggestions, I am totally selftaught and just use trial and error.
Thanks!
Dana
Hi everyone,
I face a problem with the color of the submit button (see screenshot).
I have tried customizing the Asgaros appearance section, the theme button styles as well as the style css of the Asgaros plugin. But nothing ever affects the submit button style (I also cleared the cache, that shouldn’t be the problem).
I’d be grateful for any suggestions, I am totally selftaught and just use trial and error.
Thanks!
Dana
Quote from Jim on March 21, 2022, 2:35 am@dana, normally it is not too hard to find the correct css selectors to change an element’s style. The developer tools provided in browsers are a powerful way to see the css for a given element.
However, it is not so easy here, because the Appearance controls give you kind of a double-blind situation: you can’t see which Appearance control affects a given element like the Submit button. I also do it by trial and error.
The correct Appearance option that controls the submit button (and the forum menu colors, and more, is the first one, “Forum color”. I’m guessing the reason you’re not seeing it change when you change the option is caching. At a minimum, you have to clear your browser’s cache, and in some browsers reload the page. If that doesn’t work, you probably have a cache program in your Wordpress that is serving cached pages, and you need to clear that cache too. Ideally you can set such a program to not serve cached pages to anyone logged in as administrator; one less thing to deal with.
Good luck; let me know how it goes.
@dana, normally it is not too hard to find the correct css selectors to change an element’s style. The developer tools provided in browsers are a powerful way to see the css for a given element.
However, it is not so easy here, because the Appearance controls give you kind of a double-blind situation: you can’t see which Appearance control affects a given element like the Submit button. I also do it by trial and error.
The correct Appearance option that controls the submit button (and the forum menu colors, and more, is the first one, “Forum color”. I’m guessing the reason you’re not seeing it change when you change the option is caching. At a minimum, you have to clear your browser’s cache, and in some browsers reload the page. If that doesn’t work, you probably have a cache program in your Wordpress that is serving cached pages, and you need to clear that cache too. Ideally you can set such a program to not serve cached pages to anyone logged in as administrator; one less thing to deal with.
Good luck; let me know how it goes.
Quote from Dana on March 22, 2022, 12:29 amHi Jim,
though I didn’t figure it out yet, I really appreciate your answer! You are probably right – it might really be a cache problem. While trying again, it helped to know that the “Forum color” option should do the changing. However I think I just live with this appearance for now and come back to it with more time and motivation at another time.
So, thanks a lot!
Hi Jim,
though I didn’t figure it out yet, I really appreciate your answer! You are probably right – it might really be a cache problem. While trying again, it helped to know that the “Forum color” option should do the changing. However I think I just live with this appearance for now and come back to it with more time and motivation at another time.
So, thanks a lot!
Quote from Jim on March 22, 2022, 3:13 pmSounds good. When you do get back to it, know there is a third kind of caching that could be happening in addition to your browser or a wordpress plugin – your host may have a cache feature on the server. You’d have to ask them how to turn that off for testing. Also, there is a trick to temporarily break through some (all?) kinds of cache: append a query to the URL. For example, this page is
https://asgaros.com/support/topic/submit-button-color-issue/#postid-38713?a=b
I added ?a=b to the end, which should force an uncached page to be served.
Finally, since you mentioned trying to edit various CSS files, it’s possible that you are now overriding the Appearance setting with your manual CSS, and may have to undo that.
Good luck!
Sounds good. When you do get back to it, know there is a third kind of caching that could be happening in addition to your browser or a wordpress plugin – your host may have a cache feature on the server. You’d have to ask them how to turn that off for testing. Also, there is a trick to temporarily break through some (all?) kinds of cache: append a query to the URL. For example, this page is
https://asgaros.com/support/topic/submit-button-color-issue/#postid-38713?a=b
I added ?a=b to the end, which should force an uncached page to be served.
Finally, since you mentioned trying to edit various CSS files, it’s possible that you are now overriding the Appearance setting with your manual CSS, and may have to undo that.
Good luck!