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How to change background widget color on Streamline Pro?

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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How to change background widget color on Streamline Pro?

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Tagged: color, streamline pro, widget

  • This topic has 5 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 1 month ago by jasonyormark.
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  • June 16, 2017 at 12:01 pm #207830
    jasonyormark
    Member

    Is there a way that I can change the color of individual widgets on the Streamline Pro theme? Ideally I'm trying to use a dark grey and light grey swap so that each widget stands out a bit next to each other. As it stands the default is a light grey for all of them and they kind of blend into each other.

    Working on a dev site so requires a login:

    user: demo
    password: sideout

    http://comebackerdev.wpengine.com/
    June 16, 2017 at 12:20 pm #207832
    carasmo
    Participant

    Add to the Additional CSS in customizer or you theme style.css in the appropriate location. Every other widget will have a background color #ddd. The even widget is the default color you see now.

    .sidebar .widget:nth-child(odd) {
          background: #ddd;
    }

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    June 16, 2017 at 12:33 pm #207834
    jasonyormark
    Member

    Hmmm. I gave that a shot, but doesn't seem to work. I put it here:

    .sidebar .widget {
    	background-color: #eaeaea;
    	border-bottom: 2px solid #fff;
    	padding: 40px;
    }
    
    .sidebar .widget:nth-child(odd) {
          background: #666666;
    }
    June 16, 2017 at 1:48 pm #207840
    carasmo
    Participant

    It's on your site when I view it. Clear your cache: hold down the shift key and hit refresh (half circle with arrow). Also, the widget titles will need to be adjusted too.

    .sidebar .widget:nth-child(odd) {
          color: #fff;
          text-shadow: 1px 1px #333;
    }

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    June 16, 2017 at 1:50 pm #207842
    carasmo
    Participant

    All the text shadows look bad, so I adjusted the CSS to apply to the entire widget.


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    June 16, 2017 at 1:52 pm #207844
    jasonyormark
    Member

    DOH! Worked like a charm. Thanks for your help!

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