Comments on: SharePoint’s Branding Limitations, Part 2

By: Angela French

Angela French — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:06:35 +0000

An excellent series and I cheer you for your efforts. I'm having some success creating my own theme, but am having much difficulty with button background images – they won't show up. Instead a mystery blue color (D4E6FA) is rendered that is not in any style sheets. I have tried on the siteactions menu and on the Welcome and My Links to no avail. Any ideas?

By: marcyee

marcyee — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:28:11 +0000

This is fantastic stuff!
One question in regards to “The secret of the little arrow”.
Is there a way to control the color of the arrow or which image to use based on theme?

By: Pascal van Alphen

Pascal van Alphen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:11:54 +0000

Had exactly the same issue. The original stylesheet fix moved the dropdown arrow for list headers outside of the web part to the right, for all types of List web parts and for all types of site templates.

Your adjusted fix works great -thanks kainbalzary!

-Pascal

By: kainbalzary

kainbalzary — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:48:31 +0000

I'm finding that:
.ms-vh div,
.ms-vh2 div{
position:static !important;
}
will put the menu back on top, but the yellow dropdown indicator arrow that points down on coloumn headings disappears over to the the right of the screen.
The second TD has an inline position:absolute.

This worked for me:

#aspnetForm .ms-vh td,
#aspnetForm .ms-vh2 td,
.ms-vh div,
.ms-vh2 div{
position:static !important;
}

By: Andrew Burns

Andrew Burns — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:18:02 +0000

“This menu is a bit different from the other menu’s. It has a

tag and a for each sub menu item. These objects cannot be styled in the style sheet.”

It's not true that you can't style them – the styles in Core.css begin with .ms-MenuUI, and the styles work just fine. You can also change the 'on hover' highlighting on the menu using the .ms-MenuUIItemTableHover style.

The background for the menu left column as standard is actually an image. I've written about it here.
http://www.novolocus.com/2008/10/14/changing-sh...

By: newbiecoder

newbiecoder — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:01:36 +0000

Nice article! Would it be possible to integrate CSS Friendly Control Adapters (http://www.codeplex.com/cssfriendly) in the solution somehow to replace the tables in the menus with lists (li tags)?

And if it's possible, then how can it be done? I would love to see detailed instructions about that.

By: rez23

rez23 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:46:26 +0000

Kerri at imason has posted a blog entry similar to this – but that doesn’t require the “graphical designer” to know much about CSS/HTML:

http://www.imason.com/blogs/user_experience/arc...

By: Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine)

Arno Nel (SharePoint Magazine) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:33:07 +0000

This is the second part of the #SPM partner spotlight: http://sharepointmagazine.net/go/partner/