Thank you both so much for your swift and extremely helpful
responses.  I've pretty much resolved both issues (apart from a
hierarchical clash of rules which has got me beaten for today).  I
stupidly thought Firebug was just about API stuff rather than CSS so
hadn't checked it out despite the strong advice on this forum.  I
appreciate your patience with a novice!

Best wishes
Ruth

On Aug 27, 6:33 pm, Adam Feldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, what he said :)  (I was just typing a similar, though much less
> eloquent, response)
>
> If you have trouble finding the classes for these particular items,
> try:
> .gs-error-result
> .gsc-cursor-page
> .gsc-cursor-current-page
>
> Cheers!
> Adam
>
> On Aug 27, 10:26 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can easily find the selectors you need by utilizing the Firebug add-on 
> > for Firefox. Once you have that installed, simply place your mouse pointer 
> > over the element in question, right-click (Ctrl-click on a Mac), and choose 
> > "Inspect Element" in the context menu. Firebug will open, and will display 
> > information regarding that element. On the left side, you will see where it 
> > is found in the document tree. On the right, you will most likely find a 
> > box with all of the CSS rules that apply to it, including the selectors 
> > that were used to declare the rules and where they are found in the various 
> > stylesheets that have been applies.
>
> > By the way, Firebug is useful for a lot more than this, too. So I would 
> > strongly recommend that, if you don't have it already, you install it right 
> > away.
>
> > Jeremy R. Geerdes
> > Effective website design & development
> > Des Moines, IA
>
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>
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> > Church!
>
> > On Aug 27, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Ruth wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to adapt the stylesheet for Google's Minimalist Custom
> > > Search theme in order to change it from black text on white background
> > > to white text on a black background.
>
> > > I've copied the stylesheet hosted 
> > > athttp://www.google.com/cse/style/look/minimalist.css
> > > and have amended it fairly successfully, but I am having difficulty
> > > identifying the classes which control the look of two items.
>
> > > 1) The No Results box which appears when there are no matches is a
> > > pale salmon pink colour and the text in it has disappeared as it now
> > > the default white font.
>
> > > 2) The non-active page selectors (i.e. page numbers) at the bottom of
> > > the results have disappeared because of the change of the background
> > > colour.
>
> > > Could anyone tell me the names of the classes which control these two
> > > areas or point me to a full list of the classes used in Custom Search
> > > please?
>
> > > Thank you,
>
> > > Ruth
>
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