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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How to customize recent posts extended widget in side bar

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Tagged: css, font color, recent posts widget, Sidebar, widgets

  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 12 years ago by Susan.
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  • February 5, 2014 at 11:40 am #88790
    ericplotts
    Member

    I am trying to change the CSS for the recent posts widget, the font for the excerpt specifically. Everytime I change anything in the .css editor it changes everything in my theme. For instance

    ::-moz-selection {
    background-color: #333;
    color: #fff;
    }

    ::selection {
    background-color: #333;
    color: #fff;
    }

    a {
    color: #666;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    a img {
    margin-bottom: -4px;
    margin-bottom: -0.4rem;
    }

    a:hover {
    color: #666;
    }

    If i change the:

    a {
    color: #666;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    to

    a {
    color: #fff;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    it changes the color to all of the dates and author names on every post. I want to only change the font of the post excerpt in the recent posts extended widget. Please help.

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    April 13, 2014 at 9:22 am #99969
    Susan
    Moderator

    As you posted this a while back, I hope you were able to get your issue resolved. If not, please check back in, and I will escalate for you. Thanks!

    If your issue was resolved, go ahead and mark this as "resolved", so it can be closed.

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