On my forums, our theme has the topic view page display the topic in a bold blue underline.  However, in the stylesheets/theme, it seems that the topic starter name is attached to the format of the topic, so they appear the same.  Is there any way I can make them behave differently?  I don't want to have the topic starter's name appear as strongly as the topic itself.  I would want it to be a smaller, non-bold black font.

Topic view page: http://parstars.com/Connect/Forums/aff/10.aspx


Please see the attached image for clarity.

If you can direct me to where I might be able to make this change, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

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This can be done by editing the template, and adding some CSS.

1. Go to Control Panel > Templates > TopicsView
2. Locate the [STARTEDBY] tokens (there will be two) and add a span element around it:



3. Save the template.
4. Go to Control Panel > Forums and click the name of the forum (or group if you use inherit group settings)
5. Change the Topics Display template to TopicsView
6. Go to the DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/{current theme name}/module.css (You can see the current theme on the Control Panel > Settings page)
7. Add this line to the bottom of the file:



8. Save
9. Go to DNN Host > Host Settings > Restart application
10. Check the page, and change the CSS if you want.

Hmm, it didn't work. Did I do the span tags right?

[STARTEDBY]

< span >[STARTEDBY]< / span >

Oh, I am sorry, I didn't realize that the span tag in my example got rendered instead of displayed as text. I will edit the post and fix that.

That worked!!  Thank you so much, it looks a ton better now.

Do you know where in that template I might go to add a bit of vertical buffer space between those topics themselves?  They stack up on each other a bit and I wanted to add some pixels at the top and bottom of each row.

Thanks again for the help on fixing the topic starter - that was causing my eyes to cross. 

You could just modify the .aftopicrow class and add a {padding-top:5px;} or something similar.

Thanks Ben, I will try that. I really appreciate your help.