That did it! Thanks, David.
Brian

General List <[email protected]> writes:
>Oh I see why...
>
>The actual text in the bubble is links to the items, and their color is 
>specified by
>
>    a:link {
>       color: #FFFFFF;
>    }
>
>in english_grad_exhibit.html, line 26. So, you want to override that, 
>too, with this rule
>
>    div.exhibit-views-bubbleWithItems a:link {
>       color: black;
>    }
>
>David
>
>
>Brian L. Croxall wrote:
>> David,
>>
>> Nope. This produces black bullet points in front of the "unplottable" 
>> results of the map view. But the text of the map view remains white.
>>
>> I'm starting to think that I should simply create a white table within 
>> the blue background and run the exhibit from within that table so as 
>> to avoid these problems which are obviously out of my league at the 
>> moment.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> *General List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>> writes:
>> *Brian,
>>
>> Try
>>
>>     div.exhibit-views-bubbleWithItems {
>>        color: black;
>>     }
>>
>> David
>>
>> Brian L. Croxall wrote:
>> > Thanks, Ryan, for this tip. The pop-up box in the thumbnail and tile
>> > views is now showing up in a legible black font.
>> >
>> > A similar problem is occuring on the "Hometowns" view for the 2
>> > results that cannot be plotted. I've used Firebug to inspect this
>> > portion of the page and it is obviously the "a:link" in the style
>> > portion of the page that is producing this outcome. I've tried to
>> > write a similar rule to override the style here, but have had no
>> > success to this point. Is the number of results that cannot be plotted
>> > not part of "exhibit-menu-popup"?
>> >
>> >
>http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/english_grad_exhibit.html
>> > Best,
>> > Brian
>> >
>> > *General List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> > writes:
>> > *Brian L. Croxall wrote:
>> > > I've reformatted the comment in the CSS to have the appropriate form.
>> > However,
>> > > I'm still not getting the text in the pop-up box to have text in
>> > black. I've
>> > > got Firebug installed now and I can't see it giving me any errors in
>> > the CSS.
>> > >
>> > > 
>> http://webdrive.service.emory.edu/users/bcroxal/www/english_grad_exhibit.html
>> >
>> > As a debugging hint, try using Firebug to inspect the element on the
>> > page when you can't formulate a straightforward explanation about its
>> > appearance.  By using the 'Inspect' feature (upper left of the Firebug
>> > pane) on any link on a sorting box, I found there were a few rules
>> > affecting the text color.  The one that wins is 'a:link' in your page's
>> > header, which turns all links, including the ones in the sorting box, to
>> > color #FFF.
>> >
>> > You can write a more specific rule to "outdo" the a:link rule, like
>> > div.exhibit-menu-popup a:link { color: #000; } (at least, I think that's
>> > more specific).
>> >
>> > Firebug can be your very good friend :)
>> >
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