How can I edit the forum category headers?

**nick-harp** · 09-03-2008, 07:56 AM

I am looking to do a simple change to my template at the site ( Coventry City Forum )

I want to have an image blended in to each Categories header, as below using a different image for each category.

How can I go about this?

Thanks

**ArnyVee** · 09-03-2008, 09:57 AM

That looks nice! I'm not sure how to do this, but I'd like to learn as well.

This might help.... Replace Category bar with an image? - vBulletin Community Forum .... but, it's from 2002, so not sure if there's a different way of doing this.

**Soliloquy** · 09-03-2008, 08:34 PM

For the first one, depending on the look you're trying to achieve, you could probably just set the background image in the Main CSS. Not sure about your second goal, that might require some kind of custom work.

BTW, I love your status icons

**Rocket 442** · 09-04-2008, 12:23 PM

Your best bet is to go to vbulletin.org and find a theme that has images in the category bg like that, download the them and view the code. From there you can edit to work for you on your theme.

**Caddyman** · 09-05-2008, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rocket 442

Your best bet is to go to vbulletin.org and find a theme that has images in the category bg like that, download the them and view the code. From there you can edit to work for you on your theme.

i just sggested the same on a tutorial brandon posted someone asked how to integrate with vB, finding the same elements in other skins, installing them and copy and paste code is the easiest way and you learn at the same time.

**Soliloquy** · 09-05-2008, 07:14 AM

I don't know that I've ever seen a skin with different icons in the Category header. Might be a little tough to do since it's all generated by a loop. You could try using conditionals to display a specific image for each category id, but what I would do is name the images with the category id number, then have the img src include the variable for category id.