I really, really wanna upgrade to 6.7 asap.

How can I add a gradient without adding a style sheet?

It's possible, but you'll need to edit the TBT sub in public_common.pl to use the gradient image.

Allen, thanks for your feedback. I still couldn't figure it out. By the way, I'm using version 6.7. Could you post a clip of the code so I know where to put it? Also, is public_common.pl the only file I need to modify?

Thanks!

TBT will cover most places you might want the image, anywhere else wil be a matter of your preference.

I'm not at home, so I don't have code to post, but it's in:

sub TBT {

in public_common.pl and adding the background image in that table there would be the same html code you'd use for any plain html page.

Hussein, do you want the borders to be the gradient, or something like http://www.ianspence.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi , where the gradient is behind the text

Ian, I want it exactly like your site. I want the gradient behind the text exactly as you have done. I know that it is just a matter of including the gradient image as a background for the table cell, but I couldn't figure out where to put the code.

In your noncgi folder, there will be a folder called Styles

in there will be files. open them, and find the line that starts

q!TableColorStrip!

edit that line to be something like

q!TableColorStrip! => q~#000000" style="background-image: url('/grad1.gif');~

This will get undone when you edit styles in the CP, so remember how to do this.

you can do something similar for the line starting q!CategoryStripColor!

Guys, sorry to divert the topic away from the Colorforums discussion, but I'm close to getting my layout to look the way I want.

Ian, I was only able to get the gradient to appear in the row that displays the recent visitors.

I used the following code:

However, for CategoryStripColor, I tried the code you listed but it needs some tweaking.

Here is my page for your reference:

http://www.netmuslims.com/bboards/ultimatebb.cgi

I appreciate all of your help.

Regards,

Hussein

instead of using background-image, try to use background. that should override the color specified and give you the gradient.

Thanks, Ian. It's looking good.

I am trying to create a gradient for the Table Color Strip. I get the same results that Hussein got in the above posts (only the recent visitors table strip has a gradient), the other headers are #777777 in color, which is in the code, but I'm confused as to overiding it as Ian mentioned above.

After downloading the appropriate Vars file I modified the q!TableColorStrip! option.
The code I entered is below
I've tried a few different permutations of that code as well as Ian's suggestions above but with the same results.

I am clearing the cache on the UBB every time I test a new Vars file as well.

Website I'm supporting is: http://www.technicalblog.org/tech/ultimatebb.cgi

UBB 6.7.2

Guest login:
Username: guest
Password: 7PKZ64

Any ideas, thanks!

what about removing the qq~ ~ from around the style tag? I see it in the source

Same results.
Maybe I am missing something else in the code?
Also, I deleted the old Vars, uploaded the new, set changed mode to 777, cleared the UBB cache, and cleared my browser cache.
Perhaps I am missing something, I tend to skip the obvious...
Another thought, perhaps the only way to do this is to create an actual image, and use that instead of the gradient option?

the image should work, I am wondering if the gradient only works in td's and not table's tho. Possibly the color noted in the td's is overriding the gradient set in the table that holds the td's. What does it look like in firefox?

Okay, so use an image created in Fireworks (etc...) instead of the Microsoft.gradient.
I guess that is what they were talking about in the above posts.

I had never looked at the site with Firefox, i never knew that it changes the look of the site a lot. Seems it doesn't like the gradients, and has trouble with background images for tables.

I'll try the graphic and see what happens.
Thanks!