Hi Hugo, thanks for the response! Yes, I agree and I feel uncomfortable editing the buddypress core files.
In my opinion, ideally buddypress core functions would not include any references to CSS class names, as that’s purely presentation and should be located separately in the theme/template files. I can understand id tags being required for functionality, but it seems there must be some way to move the css class references out of the main code.
It just seems weird to define a new css class even though bootstrap already has an “active” definition similar to buddypress’ “current selected”?
But like I said, I’m new to BuddyPress. And as a back-end programmer I really dislike messing around with css. I’ll follow your advice and add buddypress-specific css classes..