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Thanks again (particularly for politely suffering a fool). I was misled by the Safari inspector's display of elements as class = "terms separated by white space". I overlooked the fact that in the right sidebar the terms were displayed as cascading elements.
I do appreciate the supremely helpful assistance and instruction.
Bob
Thanks all for your help. I have found a fix.
Rod, I have always used the browser inspector to identify selectors (and your tutorial is a first rate guide). My issue was that what seemed the most appropriate selectors had white space in the class names and I do not know how to deal with that.
Daniel, Your suggestion almost worked but it appears that the element "figcaption" has styling more specific than "figure". Your script changed the color of the figure but the background of the figcaption remained unchanged. Use of "figcaption:hover" changes both but the hover area is restricted to the area of the figcaption element. The solution was to add an ".item:hover" line which does change the background of the figcaption. Styling the rather general selector ".item" doesn't seem to cause problems elsewhere but if any arise I'll just create a bespoke page template and custom css targeting only that page.
BTW Is there a way of linking more than one custom css file to a page template?
In CE4 it was possible to set a:hover colors for thumbnail backgrounds and title/description text on the auto-index page. I used this on my CE4 site, http://www.etchedinlight.com so the page displayed clean thumbs which were then highlighted with displayed text on hover. It seems that the Backlight album set does not contain these selectors. I'd like to add custom css to implement this. With custom css enabled and the Backlight css selected for loading I presume that the style could simply be added to the empty Backlight sheet. Correct?
I'd use the element styling ".class a:hover{background-color:new; color:new;}"
I'm a bit perplexed re the class selector as the best class has white space e.g "albums albums-masonry clearfix". How does one select these classes with white space?
I suppose that one might use the class "album_set" and, if that were to affect other pages, create a bespoke custom css file for the single album set template.
Bob
I always reload pages but looking into the browser cache is a great suggestion as I've had real problems with changes to templates not showing up on the site. Some times I've had to unbind a template from a page or gallery and then reinstate it to see the changes, even after clearing the Backlight template cache.
re: the rest.
Clearing the template cache is first step if changes don't "take". Also the offending gallery was using the same template as the others.
Bob
PS Thanks for the great help - Backlight has a steep learning curve even for a moderately savvy web designer. It seems virtually everything including html and styles is generated on the fly by calls to the table.
Thanks, Rod. I had emptied the token field in Backlight without effect. Even with the "Push metadata ..." checked in Publisher a full republish was needed and fixed all but one album. One album (of 15) continued to display the captions even after several republications. Emptying the caption fields in Lightroom was needed.
Bob
Is there a way to turn off the captions which appear beneath enlarged images in albums short of emptying the captions in Lightroom?
Rod. I have the much same CE4 problem as Andrew. I have Godaddy hosting (classic Lunix, php 5). The plain form was working but has stopped. Form generates confirmation message but no email and no error message. Changing email addresses in TTG-BE doesn't help. Was Andrew's problem soluble? If so I'd appreciate learning the fix. A second question - where is the contact form php script located?
Thanks,
Bob Hesse
Is there any way to set up CE4 Gallery (as a template) so that the title of a published album is displayed on the masthead?
drbob
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