I want to change the secondary color of my theme to #22222280 (80% opacity) so I can have kind of a glass effect on my Discourse forum. How can I do this when the theme doesnt allow you to enter more then 6 characters in the Color code field. Is there any way to manually edit this? Or any other ide…

You could try overriding the secondary color with CSS: :root { --secondary: #22222280; }

Hiya @Ibrahim :wave: welcome to Discourse Meta :slight_smile: You can perhaps have a look at the code for my header glass theme component for some css fun with transparency and blur effect. [image] GitHub - Lillinator/glass-header: glass header glass header …

Perfecto :slight_smile: did just the trick

Already installed this, nifty component

It was actually just an experiment meant more to demonstrate the glass and blur effects and give people ideas more than be a stand alone component itself. If people can use it that’s great, but it’s probably best suited to be adapted and incorporated into an existing theme.

Secondary color of theme glass effect Discourse

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Ibrahim (Ibrahim) April 21, 2024, 8:00pm 4

Perfecto did just the trick

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