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First post so be gentle…

The person managing the site wants to assign colours to titles of different sections on an ad hoc basis. My current hack is the following:

Hex value is assigned to the ‘summary’ field in posts which is then used to style the title like so

This works fine but it’s obviously a very inelegant solution. When I try to apply the same thinking to a category page the wheels come off. I have a list of titles which link to their posts and I’m trying to style them the same way but nothing seems to work. Amongst other things, I’ve tried the following

Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Gary.

Remember that categories can have their own category custom fields as well, and those are available between the {exp:weblog:category_archive} tags. You should be able to use these to assign a colour to a category.

Thanks for getting back e-man. Unfortunately it’s not the categories I’m trying to style, it’s the entry titles. Here’s the link: http://demo.pmachine.com/k5xU3/index.php/site/artists/

A list of artists that are from a particular category and I want them to be coloured by their ‘summary’ field. I’ve got a feeling I’m going the extremely long way round.

A list of artists that are from a particular category and I want them to be coloured by their ‘summary’ field.

Why not use the standard weblog tag with category=”” then? That way your {summary} field is available.

Yes, that makes more sense. I’ll give it a go.

Worked a treat. Thanks for your help.