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i am using forum v2.3 on my site at www.thatwasBS.com and was wondering how you would go about making every other post in a thread a different color.... like you guys have set up here.... is there way to box each post? If so I would like to know how....

The easiest way to understand would be to look at an existing forum theme that does this.

<shamelessplug>You could check out the theme I wrote that does this. Specifically, look at the topic.thtml file.</shamelessplug>

Support for alternating colors is build-in. Just tweak your CSS

/* alternate table row colours */
.forumAlt1 { background-color: #F5F5F5; }
.forumAlt2 { background-color: #FFFFFF; }

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help, im not sure exactly where that css file is located... is it the one in... /www/layout/XSilver/ ????

cause if it is, i opened that up and couldnt find a spot to put that code...

could you be a little more specific for a rather newbish person such as myself?

thanks
pFunk

Try layout/XSilver/forum/additional-forum.css

tried creating that file... putting it in that directory, with the code blaine posted above... didnt work.... if someone could post a link, or send me the exavt code (all of it) that would need to be in style.css or aditional-forum.css files, it would be appreciated, or email it to me at admin@thatwasBS.com

I actually wouldnt mind it looking exactly like this forum, since I am using the xsilver theme, this looks pretty good.

Did you follow the installation instructions and copy the content of the additional-forum.css file into your style.css file?

sorry no, i had someone install the forums for me...

It would look exactly like this if it was installed correctly. All the steps are explained in the install_doc.

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thanks guys it works great now