Hi there! Thanks for great theme firstly. But i have a problem with a dual title colour.

I want to highlight my title like "com." - with one colour, "press" - with another.
I have read about firstpart code, but simply didn't find where to edit or paste it
Thanks

The blog title is set in the virtual sub-template header.php and comes from a WordPress function. So you would want to replace that whit a hard coded text and put the two color code there.

Thanks! I did

<h1 id="sitetitle">   
          <a href = "http://testagain.hostenko.com">
      <span class="firstpart">com.</span> 
  press
   </a>
</h1>

But now it's some space after "com."

How can i fix it?
Thanks

Currently there is no way to do this. the code will split the title in half to have the dual color. So if your title is 15 characters, the split will be at 7

I'll create an RFE for this

Originally Posted by simon_me

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But now it's some space after "com."

How can i fix it?

To eliminate the space, try this code, with no spaces or newlines:

<a href = "http://testagain.hostenko.com"><span class="firstpart">com.</span>press</a>

If it works, please post the rest of the code to make it not split the color in the middle. I'd like to do something similar.

jerryc: good idea, I had the same one and tried it but it doesn't work, the whole line becomes the same color.

Originally Posted by juggledad

jerryc: good idea, I had the same one and tried it but it doesn't work, the whole line becomes the same color.

Me, too, jug. That's why I asked simon for the rest of the code. He got that part to work, and you and I got the space to go away.

Simon, did you do something else, like maybe in the css, to get both colors to show?

it has to do with how the code that parses the dual color titles works and spaces that are added in. I've created an RFE asking for more control. see RFE 113-02: allow Dual Color to specify where the color change happens

Originally Posted by jerryc

If it works, please post the rest of the code to make it not split the color in the middle. I'd like to do something similar.

no, all text became black

Originally Posted by simon_me

no, all text became black

I've been thinking about this, but I haven't tried it yet. How about spanning the whole thing with a tag that says

<span style = "word-spacing:0px;"> ... </span>

and leaving the rest of the code the way you laid it out.

I've played with this and created an RFE asking for more control. Feel free to mess with the code and try different things, maybe you will find a way, but I think it has to do with the parsing of the code and what results. You will have to dig into the theme code.

Originally Posted by juggledad

I've played with this and created an RFE asking for more control. Feel free to mess with the code and try different things, maybe you will find a way, but I think it has to do with the parsing of the code and what results. You will have to dig into the theme code.

I found a workable hack and posted it on this related thread.

The javascript doesn't look like it is checking for a preexisting span.firstpart so it will try to parse the text of the title anyway.

There's a bug in the code that inserts an extra space after the closing span tag in includes/get_javascript.php.

See this related thread with updated code to allow checking for punctuation. You could use this mod and add the period to the section of tests.