Your Joomla web site uses CSS to keep the text, background colors, module header colors, headings, etc the same throughout your site. If you want to change the color of your content headings, your text, or background page color, you would do this from the CSS file . You can also change the colors of your links, the background of your menus, or the name of image files that show up.
The following information is gathered from the default output for Joomla! 1.5 core modules and assumes that no template overrides are in place.Note also that core module chrome, as generated by the System template, will wrap a module in a defined manner and in some instances apply additional CSS formatting.
When putting together a new CSS file for joomla 1.5, it’s tough to make sure you’re covering all the CSS classes available in the Joomla system. The following is an exhaustive list of all FRONTEND CSS classes and ids which are hard-coded into the Joomla 1.5 core.
Want a lean CSS drop down menu in Joomla templates? Meet the suckerfish!Well, there are a number of techniques you can use with CSS to get more visually attractive menus, all of them use unordered lists (bulleted lists to you and me) to create the menu. Let’s look at a few, we’ll start with a drop down menu.