having trouble finding where to edit colors for menu borders
 

ok, this is just weird. i'm looking for the 3 different colors that are involved in the border of the vertical menus. if you magnify things, you can see that there are two colors for the vertical lines of the border, and 1 color for the horizontal lines. i have searched my skin1.css and have not found these colors. i also have all of the files unzipped on my computer, so i did a file search and STILL did not find those colors anywhere.

oh, i guess i should mention that i took a screen cap of my page, so i can take it into paintshop and find the exact font color numbers in order to do searches for them. it's like these are phantom colors, as i cannot locate them anywhere. anyone happen to know?

Would help if we could see a url to know what skin you are using :)

i'm afraid of hackers lurking the forums, so i don't post my url here, but i have a screen cap.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/sheduma/xcart.jpg

Post your categories.tpl

{* $Id: categories.tpl,v 1.23 2004/06/24 09:53:29 max Exp $ *}
{capture name=menu}
{if $active_modules.Fancy_Categories ne ""}
{include file="`$fancycategories_config.modules_path`/fancy_categories.tpl"}
{else}
{if $config.General.root_categories eq "Y"}
{section name=cat_num loop=$categories}
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$categories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

{/section}
{else} {section name=cat_num loop=$subcategories}
<FONT class="CategoriesList">{$subcategories[cat_num].category}</FONT>

{/section}
{/if}
{/if}
{/capture}
{ include file="menu.tpl" dingbats="dingbats_categorie.gif" menu_title=$lng.lbl_categories menu_content=$smarty.capture.menu }

Ok, so it is using menu.tpl. So look in menu.tpl and see what styles it is referencing for the border, box and title. Probably vertmenutitle, vertmenuborder and vertmenubox.

nevermind, i realized i screwed things up when i added an image. i still have no idea where it was getting those colors from, but now it's getting the correct ones from skin1.css . thanks for the help.