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    • KirAsh4K Offline
      KirAsh4 Moderator
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      Changing any of the module’s color settings is done in the '~/MagicMirror/css/custom.css' file. This is assuming the author of the module wrapped the various elements in tags that you can refer to, which all of the default modules are. You can look at the 'main.css' file to get an idea of what the various tags are that you can use. I do not recommend changing anything in 'main.css', but rather override them in 'custom.css' instead.

      Alternatively you can also look at the raw HTML generated through your browser’s console (just pulling up the page’s source won’t show the full HTML generated.)

      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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        amanzimdwini @KirAsh4
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        @KirAsh4
        THX. Will spend some happy time fiddling with all the stuff. “Wasted” 2 days on getting MM2 up on a brand-new Pi3, but the ‘wife-acceptance-factor’ is already awfully high :) Now I have to just customize it to the n-th degree…

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        • KirAsh4K Offline
          KirAsh4 Moderator
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          Nothing’s ever “wasted”. You learned a lot during that time … educational enrichment. :)

          A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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            amanzimdwini @KirAsh4
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            @KirAsh4
            Now I have question that is probably painfully obvious to anyone but me (I’m an old physicist and drive around in SQL all day long – don’t ask; I have no idea about hardcoding CSS.)

            IF I want to change the font of, say, the compliments,
            THEN I poke around and see that part of compliments.js

                var compliment = document.createTextNode(complimentText);
                var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
                wrapper.className = "thin xlarge bright";
            

            Cool: I could redefine, say, xlarge in my custom.css. But that seems a silly hack, and I’d mess up everything else that also uses xlarge. Not good. Much better to change the color of compliments only. How do I do that? Say I want

            compliments
            .color: #3CF
            .font-size: 80px
            .line-height: 80px
            .font.family: "Ariel"
            

            I suspect that this is very obvious how to change my custom.css, but you guys all seem helpful :)
            Hey: I already figured out how to push things around on the screen to where I want them to be. Next, I have to stretch everything, since the fonts seem a bit compressed. Lots of fun. Ultimately I’ll write my own modules, I hope.

            Thanks in advance!

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              Wilco89 @amanzimdwini
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              @amanzimdwini, open Magic Mirror in a browser yourip:8080,

              Right click (inspect element) and look for the right class name (that is the one to use).

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                amanzimdwini @Wilco89
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                @Wilco89
                Thanks. Am an old male - need EXPLICIT instructions :)

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                  Wilco89 @amanzimdwini
                  last edited by Wilco89

                  @amanzimdwini
                  Css should like this:

                  .compliments{
                  color: #3CF,
                  Etc: 80px,
                  etc: 80px,
                  fontfamily: Ariel,}

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                    amanzimdwini @Wilco89
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                    @Wilco89
                    WOAH - I was really close. (and I was just guessing!). (looking at inspect elements gave me a headache)
                    Thanks! I;ll try it right now

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                    • KirAsh4K Offline
                      KirAsh4 Moderator
                      last edited by KirAsh4

                      You can be very specific which tag you are trying to change, even if it’s one that is used everywhere. For example, let’s say I want to change the CSS for 'bright'. Just about all the modules use that tag, so if I change it, it’s going to affect all of them. But what if I want to only affect the calendar module? You can use the DOM tree to your advantage. If you look at the elements tree you should see something similar to this:

                      <div class="region top left">
                        <div class="container">
                          <div id="module_1_clock" class="module clock clock">...</div>   <== this pertains to the clock only
                          <div id="module_2_calendar" class="module calendar calendar">   <== this pertains to the calendar only
                            <div class="module-content">
                              < --some random tag that uses the class 'bright' in here-- >
                            </div>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                      </div>
                      

                      Now I can see that the 'bright' tag that I want to change, has several parent tags above it. Since I only want to affect the calendar one, I can then create a CSS rule that says:

                      .module.calendar .bright {
                        color: #ff0000;
                      }
                      

                      This says, to specifically look for the element that has the "module calendar" class, then within that, look for anything that uses the class "bright".

                      Now only my calendar is affected (and shows red text). Now just for grins, remove the first part, and just make it

                      .bright {
                        color: #ff0000;
                      }
                      

                      And you’ll notice all of your text is now red. By adding the specific parent class or ID, you can be very specific which class you’re targeting.

                      Happy hacking!

                      A Life? Cool! Where can I download one of those from?

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                        Wilco89 @KirAsh4
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                        @KirAsh4 thnx, i’m on my phone so really hard to type Long text.

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