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  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 9 months ago by davidquay.
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  • December 6, 2013 at 4:30 pm #77468
    davidquay
    Participant

    Working with metro pro at practicesite2.us and want to be able to change the background color of text input areas on forms from gray to white. On that page in the sidebar, the top widget has a gray background behind the area to input email address. On the second widget, however, I do not want a gray box behind the Paypal donation area. Any help greatly appreciated.

    http://practicesite2.us
    December 6, 2013 at 9:34 pm #77495
    Davinder Singh Kainth
    Member

    Open style.css file and change #f5f5f5 to #fff for white color as background (or any other color as requirement).

    /* Forms
    --------------------------------------------- */
    input,
    select,
    textarea {
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
    border: 1px solid #ddd;
    box-shadow: 0 0 5px #ddd inset;
    color: #999;
    font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-size: 1.4rem;
    padding: 16px;
    padding: 1.6rem;
    }

    For paypal are you using some plugin or custom code with inline css styles?


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    December 8, 2013 at 7:11 pm #77762
    davidquay
    Participant

    Thanks, but that will change the background for all input areas on all forms and I want to eliminate the background just behind the PayPal donate button. I believe it has to do with specifying the textarea ID (which is 710776925) but I'm not exactly sure how to do that.

    Paypal is incorporated into the widget by just pasting the button code generated by their website:

    <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
    <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">
    <input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="47TGNXXXXX">
    <input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">

    </form>

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