Attribute Choice Text Changes

[Simon Bridges]

Has anyone an idea on how to change the text size and colour of attribute choices? I have tried pasting HTML into the HTML field for the attribute choices and although the HTML is bieng recognised as far as description is concerned, the typeface, size and colour are not changing. I guess this is bieng overwritten by some css somewhere. Any ideas?
I have enclosed a screenshot for reference.
Many thanks
Simon Bridges
www.alexreade.net

[NormanRouxel]

You have to use plain text for drop down choices. HTML isn't allowed. This isn't an Actinic limitation - it's part of the HTML specification.

If you want to show the colour of an option by filling in the list in a rainbow-like way, then I've a (donationware) patch on www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff that does just that.

[Simon Bridges]

Thanks Norman, helpful as ever. Thanks for the info re colours but what I wanted to change more than anything is the font size so it matches the smaller text on the rest of the site.
cheers
Simon Bridges
http://www.alexreade.net

[wjcampbe]

The font size may be set in css - look for attributes assigned to the select tag.

If none found, set your own.

[NormanRouxel]

If you want this set the same for all Choice drop-down lists then edit Act_VariantListHeader.html and add a class tag to the SELECT in there. Also add your custom class definition to actinic.css.

Bill's suggestion will also work but will change all drop-down lists site wide, not just product based ones.

[Simon Bridges]

[QUOTE=NormanRouxel]...........add a class tag to the SELECT in there. Also add your custom class definition to actinic.css.

Erm, How? sorry (HTML I am getting to grips with but CSS seems like martian to me at the moment)

I am looking to replace the attribute choice standard size text with Size 1 Verdana as per the rest of the site(I am happy for this to be a sitewide change affecting all drop down lists)
Many thanks for your patience with dumb questions like this.
Simon Bridges
http://www.alexreade.net

[SusanF]

Not actually an answer to your question, but it might be useful to know that if you change to radio buttons rather than a drop down list, you can then change font size, colour etc, using html coding within the the 'HTML for name' area in the choice details screen.

[jont]

If you edit the file mentioned above by Norman you will see:

<SELECT NAME="NETQUOTEVAR:ATTRIBUTEREF">

add in your class eg:

<SELECT class="myCLASS" NAME="NETQUOTEVAR:ATTRIBUTEREF">

in the actinic.css add the following:

.myCLASS {
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
color: #999999;
}

you can set the font-size and color accordingly.

**Not tested**

[Simon Bridges]

Firstly thanks to Susan and to jont for your replies. I will have a go at the instructions you have provided jont, thanks a million.

As an aside I recently saw people complaining about this forum and wanted to say that I have never been let down, with any question that I have posted. This forum is an invaluable asset for all of us without advanced knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Once again many thanks to all.
Simon Bridges
http://www.alexreade.net

[rjcuser]

Hi

Is there any way to add a class to the 'quantity' field as well?

Cheers
Richard

[NormanRouxel]

Yes. Go to Design / Text / Goto / Phase -1, Id 2173 and add it to

%s<INPUT TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="4" VALUE="%d">

e.g.

%s<INPUT class="myclass" TYPE=text NAME="%s" SIZE="4" VALUE="%d">