Editing in the dark

We found a cool skin for the AFIS portal called Darkness. Very nice looking, and great until you get to trying to edit. (We’re using kupu.) Then, Gack!  The text for the skin is white, and the default kupu background is also white – not such a hot idea.  Anyway, it is a known issue in the skin, we just hadn’t read the release notes – but by the time we figured there was a problem, we’d already spent some faffing around time editing out pics and logos to fit nicely in with the new scheme.   So we decided to change the background colour in kupu to a nice, dark colour to show up the text.

I googled and googled,  but couldn’t find anything useful. Eventually I searched the plone mailing lists, and came upon a wonderfully clear email about the problem.  (I didn’t keep the link, I’m afraid). Basically, you just add the following tag to the .css for the skin:

body.kupu {

background-color:  black  /* or whatever */

}

W00t! Much happiness and dark background editing.