Disappearing tabs in Digg 3 theme w/ custom css

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    diningindc · Member ·

    I really like and use every aspect of the 3 column Digg theme, but no matter what I do whenever I add a custom background image to the body of the blog, the tabs disappear behind the page links. The tabs show up fine when you first select the theme, and the ONLY thing I added was a url to a bg image but the themes are gone, even though the css for the tabs as they were originally created are still there.

    Does anyone know of a fix or why this is occurring??

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    At wordpress.COM, NEVER paste the entire CSS into the CSS edit window. Since wordpress stores your CSS in a different location from the original CSS, all relative URL’s to images and such in the CSS are broken if you paste the entire thing.

    Paste ONLY the specific selectors, and ONLY the specific declarations that you are modifying or adding into the CSS edit window.

    See this post by the CSS guru Devblog for more information: http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/ .

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    The tabs are made up of images. The image links in the CSS are “relative” links. They are now broken because you pasted the entire CSS into the edit box.

    I really wish that wordpress would be more clear on this in the custom CSS support documents. It would save people a lot of headaches.

    If you do not want to remove all the CSS and only paste in the changes you are making, then you will have to go through all the CSS in the edit window, figure out the absolute URL for all the different image elements listed in the CSS and replace the relative links with the absolute links. This can be very time consuming.

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