Another crappy Wordpress problem

[xoggoth]

Was style directly in page but as there was no normal background: anywhere I could just put that in any css file that was in all pages. Sorted. Cheers again.

[NickFitz]

Cheers Nick but I already know that if it's a normal webpage. Unfortunately Wordpress appears to be PHP generated, there is no html file I can modify directly. Where it gets that line from (that single line alone is the size of several decent size webpages!) I don't know without delving into how Wordpress works and I'd rather saw my head off.

The styles should still be in static CSS files though. It'll be in wp-content/themes/{name of theme}/styles.css or somewhere similar. The IE developer tools should be able to track it down (F12 to open them).

[xoggoth]

Cheers Nick but I already know that if it's a normal webpage. Unfortunately Wordpress appears to be PHP generated, there is no html file I can modify directly. Where it gets that line from (that single line alone is the size of several decent size webpages!) I don't know without delving into how Wordpress works and I'd rather saw my head off.

[NickFitz]

Hard to be sure as gradients are a complete mess of various experimental implementations and things vary hugely across different versions of IE, but as the gradient is from and to the same colour anyway, just rip the lot out and replace with the single line

background: #3056b0;

and it should be fine on everything.

EDIT: I'm using "background" rather than "background-color" because it will set the background colour, but also set all other background-* properties to their default values. It's possible that, if one only uses "background-color", there will have been other background-* properties set to other values elsewhere, which will mess things up. Using "background" makes sure it behaves as it does now, just without all that unnecessary gradient gubbins.

[xoggoth]

Looking at this for somebody else and blue BUTTON backgrounds are not showing in IE10, leaving white on white. Ok in other browsers or compatibility mode.

None of the online problems are relevant so dived into code and found the style line has no settings for IE10 background. It has this

background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#3056b0 0%,#3056b0);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#3056b0 0%,#3056b0);
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#3056b0),to(#3056b0));

but not:

background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top left, #3056b0 0%, #3056b0 100%);

Can't really manually change WP pages, so are there any settings/updates this person is not applying? Or how do they not apply gradient to a button when it's all one colour anyway? Cheers.