How to customise the username colour on showgroups.

[iZefi10]

Good day folks.

So I have installed a plugin that basically lets you set the colour of your username based on a hex code you put in a profile field.

The problem I have is, this colour does not show on showgroups.php or in the members online boxes at the bottom of the page, if the usergroup the profile field is based off is set to default display group.

If you have any ideas or bits of code on how I can basically do this:

If member on showgroups is in usergroup X and has #XXXXXX in field then display username as #XXXXXX (whatever is in field)

I appreciate all support you can offer.

[greigeh]

You'd need a better/more advanced plugin to execute such function, it can't be done through a simple template edit or what not. Go to the coder of your original plugin and see if they can update it for you.

[blind-eddie]

Hello Joe, I would uninstall that plugin and edit each usergroup.

Select any usergroup, on the forth section down, Username HTML Markup.

You will see two input boxes.

In the first box, add: <font color="#FF0000">
In the second box, add: </font>

Use this on every usergroup changing the color code for each.
Colored user names will now show colored everywhere.

If you want a group to have bold font use the following:
In the first box, add: <b><font color="#FF0000">
In the second box, add: </font></b>

[HM666]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Hello Joe, I would uninstall that plugin and edit each usergroup.

Select any usergroup, on the forth section down, Username HTML Markup.

You will see two input boxes.

In the first box, add: <font color="#FF0000">
In the second box, add: </font>

Use this on every usergroup changing the color code for each.
Colored user names will now show colored everywhere.

If you want a group to have bold font use the following:
In the first box, add: <b><font color="#FF0000">
In the second box, add: </font></b>

Yeah pretty much what I was thinking you can also use span tags as well in those two same places to apply CSS to usernames like this:

First box: <span style="color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;">

Second box: </span>

Using CSS is helpful if you want to do more than bold, color, italicize, or other basic things you use with just using the <font> tag. CSS makes it where its much more open and gives you more freedom for the style of the names and how the appear on your site.