[solved] Changing Formatting/Colors of Emails

[nclark]

I am using the default template and was wondering where I go to change the colors of the automated emails that are sent to the customer and to me when an order is placed? Right now the bars and shading are magenta and I would like to change them to just be black or grey. Would this be in a CSS file or is it in a .tpl file?

Any help is appreciated!!

[vekia]

preferences -> themes

 

scroll page down and you will see something like:

 

you can change color by clicking on palette icon

[nclark]

Oh WOW, how did I miss that! So simple, maybe that is the problem, it was too simple of a fix. Thanks for your quick response!

[vekia]

you're welcome

 

i marked this thread as solved.

 

If you've got any other question related to this issue - feel free to continue discussion here

 

regards

[eleazar]

Well, vekia, sometimes there's a difference between concepts and practices.

 

Till version 1.5.4 this feature didn't work because the styles were hard coded:

 

style="color: #db3484;" 

instead of

 style="color: {color};" 

 

So users of previous version have to modify the wrong code in every mail first to make your solution happen. And then there's still a hard coded light pink left for manual change (#f1aecf;).

 

This was fixed first in 1.5.4.1.

[kmorgen]

Have been struggling with this too.

 

Upgraded from 1.4.10 to 1.5.4.1, but the mails are still pink unfortunately (but do have guest tracking notice, so guess it is not the same files as 1.4.10)

 

I also noticed I cannot save changes/translations of the mails. I guess it is some read only issue, but the error message point to themes/mails/da/lang.php but I have no mail dir in the themes folder, only in root.

 

Would be possible to just overwrite the entire mails dir with 1.5.4.1 files to solve this or what?

[vekia]

Have been struggling with this too.

 

Upgraded from 1.4.10 to 1.5.4.1, but the mails are still pink unfortunately (but do have guest tracking notice, so guess it is not the same files as 1.4.10)

 

I also noticed I cannot save changes/translations of the mails. I guess it is some read only issue, but the error message point to themes/mails/da/lang.php but I have no mail dir in the themes folder, only in root.

 

Would be possible to just overwrite the entire mails dir with 1.5.4.1 files to solve this or what?

 

does the @eleazar  solution work for you? (i mean color)

[kmorgen]

Well, yeah - regarding color I manually changed the code for a few templates, and it did work.

 

However having to do that manually for a multilingual site and each template will take forever, so hopefully a official fix will be implemented.

[vekia]

but this was fixed in 1.5.4.1, so it should work for you :/

[kmorgen]

Well, only the templates in the /en folder has the {color} attribute here. All other languages are still PINK defined?!?

[eleazar]

Hi, kmorgen,

 

yep, you're right. I checked this in 1.5.4.1. So currently the easiest way is to use the freeware notepad++, like this:

• Click on File--> Open
  
• choose Prestashop's mail directory
  
• Use shift+mouse left on first and last file, then click open to open all files at once
  
• click ctrl+h (or Search in menu, then choose Replace)
  
• change #db3484; to {color}
  
• click in window on 'replace all items in all open files'
  
• click Ctrl+Shift+s (or choose Save all in menu File)
  

That's all. To complete this replace color #f1aecf; with a color that fits or choose {color} too.

Edited May 29, 2013 by eleazar (see edit history)

[kmorgen]

Damn, did not think of using the Replace feature on several files - thanks for the tip

 

For other readers, please notice you should not inlcude the ";" when you replace it (so replace #db3484 with {color})

 

For some strange reason I can actually not do this replace feature for all languages (Ex. NO), which have no space before #DB3484; (also written in capital). Also same problem removing the "Powered by Prestashop on some languages - not sure why..

[eleazar]

For some strange reason I can actually not do this replace feature for all languages (Ex. NO), which have no space before #DB3484; (also written in capital). Also same problem removing the "Powered by Prestashop on some languages - not sure why..

 

1) Well, kmorgen, what about activating the options match case (and always wrap around) in the replace feature? Make's this job easier ...

Anyway, notepad++ modifies the items with or without leading blank.

 

2) Did you consider to try to modify the full statement?

 

powered by <a href="http://www.prestashop.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: #374953;">PrestaShop™</a>

Maybe it's because it start with a blank as you see above. Or you didn't remember that there's a hyperlink between 'by' and 'PrestaShop'?

Edited May 30, 2013 by eleazar (see edit history)