I am having a problem with a premade template I installed on my blog, presalecentral.net. At the bottom of the right sidebard under "Search for tickets" there are 2 search boxes. The problem is when you try and type something into the text boxes. The text is white, which is the same color of the text boxes, which makes the text extremely hard to see. I think the text color can be changed by editing the CSS or theme files, but I don't know how. If anyone here can help me with this problem, please e-mail me at jasiel123@gmail.com or reply to this post. If you need some files, just let me know. Thanks and I will greatly appreciate any help.

add:
class="something"
to the input tag in the html output

add:

input.something {
color:#000;
}
to your css style sheet, and the text will appear black

Although, having said that, white is not the standard colour of text in an input field, black is.

Sooo...............
look for a class="????" in the input tag. if it's there, find it's counterpart in the style sheet and change the colour to black (or whatever colour you want). if it's not there, look for a style for the inputs and change it to black (or again, any colour you like)

Thanks I'll try it out!

I thought it best to keep this open rather than use PM's. there are many people here who could help you.

My above answer was based on the info i had to hand but it's difficult to debug something we can't see. if you could provide a link, I (or anyone else passing) could take a look and solve it pretty quickly

I forgot to include it in my initial post, my website is: presalecentral.net. I am so sorry about that! If you need any more info let me know. Thanks!

The color issue has to do with the declaration for your input.
Currently you have in your CSS;

input

{

        border:none;

        background:#039;

        height:20px;

        color:#fff;

        font-weight:normal;

        margin-top:2px;

}

There is no specific class declared, you have the font set to be white for all of the "input" tags.

Removing the color declaration will allow the text to be your default color, or you can change from fff to 000 making the input text black.
Doing just this single change will then create another minor text color issue. This will also change the text color for the "Subscribe" button on your "Subscribe via e-mail" form to black making it difficult to read. To solve this you would need to add a class to the input tag for the subscribe button so the text will remain white.

Start by adding a class to the subscribe input tag.

<input class="button" value="Subscribe" type="submit">

Then in the style sheet add the class and the color declaration to the sheet.

input.button {color:#fff;}

Thank you so much for your help ColoEagle! I'm so glad I finally could get this fixed! I greatly appreciate you for taking time to help me out. Also, I thank griffin for helping as well and for letting me know I forgot to include my website.

G'day jasiel.

I thank griffin for helping as well and for letting me know I forgot to include my website.

It really would be a good move for you to go to the Profile section and fill in your details, including your URL. See the Profile link at the top of this page.

A photo avatar would be great, also. This would allow us to see who who we are talking with.

I know that it can be difficult and daunting when you're fairly new to things. I hope you'll continue to feel at home on SR and gain further benefit from your participation. So here's my belated "Welcome!"

Regards,
Laurie.