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A few months ago I posted this tip on how to flag new inbox messages

That thread has gotten a little messy and the tip has been updated to make it look a lot cleaner and less image reliant, so i thought I'd post a clean format here.

The idea is to give members and easier way to spot that they have unread messages in their inbox and/or friend requests waiting. I've used green because that stands out on my site but obviously you can play around with colours. Here's the result on my site:

Here is the code that you'll need for you Appearance/Advanced CSS box:

/* Inbox Alert */
.xj_messages_present .xj_count_unreadMessages {
    background-color: #009900;
    border: solid 1px #006600;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    margin-left: 2px;
    padding:0 3px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px #3F3F3F;
border-radius: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;

}

.xj_messages_present small {
background-color: transparent;
margin-right: -30px;
}

.xj_messages_present small a{
text-decoration:none !important;
color:transparent !important;
}


/* friend request */
.xj_one_friend_request small{
background-color: #009900;
    border: 1px solid #006600;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    margin-left: 2px;
    padding: 0px 3px 1px 3px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px #3F3F3F;
border-radius: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
}

.xj_one_friend_request small a{
text-decoration:none !important;
color:#ffffff;
}

There are some suggestions in the former thread that you could replace the background colours with flashing animated gifs, a good idea if you want that extra level of notification.

Enjoy

SP

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  • NC for Hire

    Very nice idea... thanks for sharing it...

  • yups gud thnx

  • Do you know how to change the code that you wrote above to make your green flash?

    • NC for Hire
      You'd have to make a flashing gif image and then make that the background
      • Were would I embed the gif image into your code?

        • NC for Hire
          Replace
          background-color: #00990;

          With

          Background: url(your image URL);
  • Sweetpotato,

    This is a great tip. On my network, I changed Alerts to Comments. When you click on comments it takes you to your comment wall (on your member profile). I was wondering if a similar alert could be created (for # of new comments on a users profile wall) like the inbox and message alerts code in this tip. 

    • NC for Hire
      Not really sure what alerts does to be honest, never had one either on creators or my own site. How did you change it to comments?
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