Question

The Django Admin page is different shades of blue by default.
Where do I access how these colours are controlled? I want to change it all to shades of green instead of blue.

Ideas?

Answer 1

You can override the admin templates. You probably want to the admin/base_site.html template, and provide an extrastyle block with any CSS you want to inject into the template. You’ll need to know which styles to override (there’s quite a few) – when I did this I just found the elements I wanted to change, and added styles until everything looked right.

So, presuming you’ve got a templates directory somewhere (which is set in TEMPLATE_DIRS), create a file called admin/base_site.html, which is probably going to be a copy of django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/base_site.html.

For example, my base_site.html template has a section in it like this:

{% block extrastyle %}
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/adminextra.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" />
{% endblock %}

In yourcssfile.css you just have:

a:link, a:visited { color: awesome; text-decoration: underline; }