unable to change colour of text

everything i do i cant seem to change the text colour on my site :( i have tried through base general css, mytemplate general css and anchor css but wont work!!! im on 6.1.6

First. Only post your problem once. I found 3 posts for this.

Try the body tag in common.css

sorry, wasnt sure where to post it!!

Where do i find the common css??? cant seem to find it..

Apparently common.css does not exist in d6.

Alright. General.css.

body
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
margin-bottom:20px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}

Add a color to that section like color:#000000; So you end up with this.

body
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
margin-bottom:20px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
body
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
margin-bottom:20px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#000000; //Use color you want here.
}



Normally the default color is specified in the body tag, but no default was specified, so i am not sure if this will work. And even if it does, not all of the colors will change. Some will have their own CSS that will need to be changed as well. So there is not any one single location that will change the color throughout the entire site.

Start using firefox and get the firebug plugin for it. Firebug will allow you to right click on any area to get the properties of it, and it will show you where the CSS for it is. It's a valuable tool.

Thanks, tried that and it didnt seem to change a thing with the text :(

As Deno said this should do it,

Body text
tmpl_uni/css/general.css

body
color:#000000; => edit to color:#743A3A;
--------------------------------------------
Header text
tmpl_uni/css/general.css

.boxFirstHeader
color:#666; => edit to color:#FF4F4F;
--------------------------------------------

one cause if nothing happens can be if you use another template than UNI and edit tmpl_uni files and not tmpl_mytemplatename files!!!!

ok im so confused now :)   i have tried and change all that you both said and nothing has changed on my website at all, none of the text has changed colour, i have tried changing my_template general css, base css, and anchor css but it wont change :( i need to change the colour of the text as it classhes with my background :(

anyone help??

ok now this is getting really strange, i just did a backup of my database and just as a test i deleted everything off my_template general.css file, and saved it, when i refreshed my website after doing this nothing changed at all!!     now im worried as it seems nothing i do can change my site :(   anyonw kno why this could be???