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[James Weston Friend James WestonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1030Downloads:11Uploads:70 Thanks: 408 Thanked: 16 times in 1 posts]

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Hi Guys,

I am slowly getting better with joomla and hopefully will not have to ask so many questions of all the great people on the forum who have been so helpful.

I have been trying to work out how to use firebug to show me which files i need to edit but am struggling to identify the file. Can someone point me in the right direction.

On this page http://www.mypressconcierge.com/index.php/latest-news I want to change the “Written by Super User” into “Posted by Super User” when i got to firebug I can’t understand where to find it as all the files i click on don’t have the word written in them.

Could someone who is good with firebug take a screen shot and show circle the area I need to be looking at so i can learn fro teh future.

Many thanks,

Jim

[Stork11 Friend Stork11Join date: March 2011Posts: 2273Downloads:0Uploads:142 Thanks: 55 Thanked: 431 times in 393 posts]

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<em>@origomedia 336958 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Guys,

I am slowly getting better with joomla and hopefully will not have to ask so many questions of all the great people on the forum who have been so helpful.

I have been trying to work out how to use firebug to show me which files i need to edit but am struggling to identify the file. Can someone point me in the right direction.

On this page http://www.mypressconcierge.com/index.php/latest-news I want to change the “Written by Super User” into “Posted by Super User” when i got to firebug I can’t understand where to find it as all the files i click on don’t have the word written in them.

Could someone who is good with firebug take a screen shot and show circle the area I need to be looking at so i can learn fro teh future.

Many thanks,

Jim</blockquote>
Hello Jim,

To edit “Written by Super User” text, please open “languageen-GBen-GB.com_content.ini” file, then edit “COM_CONTENT_WRITTEN_BY” language.

Regards.

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1. James Weston

[James Weston Friend James WestonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1030Downloads:11Uploads:70 Thanks: 408 Thanked: 16 times in 1 posts]

#466415

Thanks Stork,

Great answer as always and I have changed it. But now I have gone back to firebug and I still cannot see how you found that out using firebug?

On teh same page http://www.mypressconcierge.com/index.php/latest-news I want to change the word Author and also the colour of the results under author. Can you help me identify where to change that?

Am really keen to learn how to identify the file to change as when I check I am not finding the right file.

Jim

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#466425

Hi Jim
With those declarations being in a core file, .ini. Firebug doesn’t see them, it only can work with the files as html and css that has been rendered by the browser. To my knowledge firebug when hovered over the ‘written by xxx’ text will look at the code that generated the Div, a tag, body tag etc. and display that generated code. it is unable to trace right back to an ini file. Hope this makes sense

Shannon

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1. James Weston

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#466427

Thanks Shannon, so really then in a case like the one I am asking with the additional questions above I will have to ask someone on the forum to help me identify the files if I cannot use firebug?

Jim

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#466431

I trhink it would be wise, Jim. Sometimes as you gain experience you can trace some of these things to the less than obvious, but the developers know these things. Looking though other threads and posts can often pick up similar things. The super user and Joomla text colour is inherited from the site body#bkg text colour etc.

body#bd {
color: #000000
font-size: 12px;
}
body {
color: #333333
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
line-height: 1.6;
}
body {
color: #000000
font-family: sans-serif;
line-height: 1.5;
}

These define the text for every article post etc so be very careful changing those, as the text for the Latest releases in your link is in a table you could add a text/colur declaration to the table class

table.contentpane, table.tablelist, table.category {
width: 100%;
}
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}

Just some ideas. With the css compression on you’ll never find the correct file or line number with firebug, so you need to turn the join minify compressions stuff off first then look
Hope this gives you ideas
Blessings Shannon

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1. James Weston

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#466432

Thanks Shannon,

All good advice. I think might be best that I try not to be to clever. I will leave the colour the alone.

I will turn off the compressions and then see if I can find the line to edit the Author word to something else.

Cheers and thanks for your input.

Jim

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