Thread:Project:Support desk/Changing link color does not apply/reply (3)

>''Can you tell me where this is determined in the files on the server? I think it's better to do this within the files and not the wiki.''

We highly reccomend against modifying the files on the server for stuff like this. It will break when/if you upgrade mediawiki, and anything you can modify in one of those files you can modify on the wiki. (However, if I really can't convince you of that, these files are in the skins subdirectory. Personally I'd recomend taking a look at what rules are used there, and adapting them into mediawiki:Common.css.)

To stop the "new" links from changing colour, you should also add a rule like  (Or figure out the exact specificity needed to override just the colour for normal links, and not the colour for links with special classes).

>Second, the rules don't apply to the menu links

That is what the .mw-body part of the rules you were using means (They mean only apply to links inside mw-body, which does not include menus and stuff outside of the wikitext controlled area). if you drop that part of the rule, it will apply to all links (So rules like  )