Make background transparent?

[Mad Jack]

Hello,

I'm using the Executive Pro Theme with the Responsive slider

Website is here href="https://www.muddguitars.com/

On the slider, I would like to make the dark grey background behind the text excerpt transparent, any idea where I could do that? I've tried looking for the CSS code which controls the text excerpt background color but with no luck.

Thanks so much for any help anyone can offer.

[Brad Dalton]

Try adding !important to your CSS declarations

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[Mad Jack]

I obviously sounded smarter than I am Brad... lol

How would I do that?

Thanks 🙂

[Brad Dalton]

You can inspect the element, find the CSS rule and modify the value for the background property. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYyQv0CSZOE&feature=emb_title

A declaration consists of a property and value like this :

background: white; or background-color: white;

To can add important! like this

background: white!important; or background-color: white!important;

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[Mad Jack]

Hey Brad,

So I've been trying to figure this out... I did the 'inspect' and it said the code was in the css for the executive pro theme. I found the code in the css which is

.content .genesis_responsive_slider .slide-excerpt {
background-color: #222;
filter: alpha(opacity=100);
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 4% 5.5%;
opacity: 1;

When I was doing the inspect element I was able to click on the color and change it, it changed it to #2220 which made it transparent but didn't save it. So I edited the css to make the color #2220, and I also tried changing the opacity to 000, but no matter what I change them to, the color is not transparent on the site. To test I was actually working on the correct css, I tried changing the color to red to see if that worked, but it still didn't change it on the site.

I'm sorry for being such a muppet Brad... I thought I'd figured it out.

Here is a screenshot of the inspect and what it pulled up.

screenshot

Thanks for any advice.

[Brad Dalton]

Try using transparent as the value for your CSS property.

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[Mad Jack]

Brad, you Sir are a genius!!!

It worked, thanks so much for your help,

Cheers,
Jack.

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