How do you change the box colors?

By boxes I mean like the poll,blogs,articles and such on your homepage. It's still set a white.

You can do it by css, but that will fill all the boxes with the color you given the same.
Look at designbox. I know one of us has describe how to make blocks other colors. Try a search on the forum.

Still won't let me change it in .css

Can anyone throw me a bone?

well if you a trying to change it from the admin pannel then you need to change the permission of the css file you are working on to 666 or can download the general.css file via ftp make the changes then reupload the file to your server.

 The code in question that I am trying to edit is

 }
 
 .boxContent
 {
/*  position:relative; */
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  /*color:#ffffff;*/
  padding:10px;

The color code has been changed but I just changed it back to white.

Is this the right code?

Yes the permission is there, I just can't figure this bad boy out, but then again I am a newbie:)

BTW, thanks for all your help man, these forums need more people like you.

Anyone?

yes that is the spot to edit the box colors  but i do see you have it commented out ?   /*     */      why is that ?

Okay, you can go into general.css and change the code as you have which will affect all boxes, or you can use each specific pages .css file to change the color of the boxes per page.  Finally, you can create multiple design boxes and change the color of each box according to column.  Let me help you out with what I'm saying here.  First let's handle it all boxes at once, as noted above just simply find the design box and edit the color, this will effect all boxes. as follows:

.boxContent
 {
position:relative; 
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  color:#ffffff;
  padding:10px;

Now set the color: #to whatever you want it to be

Or you can locate this in your general.css file and have a little more fun to set all the boxes in the first column to a color different than the other columns:

.page_column_first .page_block_container {
  margin-left: 0px;
 }

Now, add the above so this code looks as follows:

.page_column_first .page_block_container {
  margin-left: 0px;

.boxContent
 {
position:relative; 
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  color:lime;
  padding:10px;

 }
 }

And locate this for the last column:

.page_column_last .page_block_container {
  margin-right: 0px;
 }

And edit it as follows:

.page_column_last .page_block_container {
  margin-right: 0px;

.boxContent
 {
position:relative; 
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  color:#151515;
  padding:10px;

 }
 }

Note, each column will have a different color.  Now, let's say that you would like each page/column to have it's own color.  Now, wouldn't that be fun?  I bet it would be a real blast for those of you who love to play with colors and set everthing it's own unique way.  So, let's take what we've learned above and have a little more fun with it.  Remember, each page has it's own css and thus you can customize each individual page without effecting the others if you like.

Just locate the page you want.  For example profile page would be at templates/tmpl_uni/profilef_view.css  Take the code from above and add it to the profile_view.css page as follows:

Locate the following at the top of the file:

@charset "iso-8859-1";
@import url(../../base/css/profile_view.css);

Add the following below it:

.page_column_first .page_block_container {
  margin-left: 0px;

.boxContent
 {
position:relative; 
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  color:lime;
  padding:10px;

 }
 }

.page_column_last .page_block_container {
  margin-right: 0px;

.boxContent
 {
position:relative; 
  overflow:hidden;
  font-size:13px;
  color:#151515;
  padding:10px;

 }
 }

You have just given different box colors to the different columns on the profile view page of your site.  You can do this by locating the css file to any page and adding the columns to it.  If the page has no columns settings within it's css file it will default to the general, but if you add them in it will use what is specifically assigned to it.

Have fun guys.