Set white background – DISQUS

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Hi, everyone!

I've been searching for a while with no joy, hope someone here can help me out.

I'd like to display a white background for my DISQUS comments instead of my current website background.

Anyone know how to do that?

See below an example of post.

Many thanks in advance!

http://theworldpassenger.com/oberhausen-centro-commerciale/

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This should do the trick - add this to style.css:

div#disqus_thread {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border-radius: 3px;
    padding: 12px;
}

I added the 3px border-radius to match your above section, and the 12px of padding makes it look a lot better than without. Let me know if it works!

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Thanks a lot for the support Matt!

I pasted it into the style.css (at the very end) but unfortunately nothing changed. Should I put it in some very specific point into the file?

I even tried to paste it directly into the DISQUS plugin but still no joy.

Am I doing smt wrong?

Thank you!
Simone

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I really don't know, that's the selector the inspector is giving me in Chrome. It's all kind of a mess, with no particularly clear way on how to target that specific area, but that, and "body.serif.dark" are the pieces I see that pertain to it (though I believe the latter isn't specific to that page, and is part of your theme).

I would either try using body.serif.dark as the selector (just to test), or try adding !important to all of your rules above, like so:

div#disqus_thread {
    background-color: #ffffff !important;
    border-radius: 3px !important;
    padding: 12px !important;
    color: #666 !important;
}

I added the 666, as the text down on the bottom is white, and wasn't visible. Also check to make sure your page isn't cashed, and use an incognito window or something.

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Mmm.. still no good even with the !important (I did the incognito thing too).

Not quite sure what you mean with the “body.serif.dark”. Should that be in the style sheet of my child theme?
Because unfortunately I cannot find it.

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Found it out - I just installed a plugin to edit css and pasted your code there! (-:

Thanks a lot for the support man!

PS. I bought you a beer - and I am living in Germany so it's gonna be good for sure ahah

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Yay German beer! I'll enjoy it for sure, thanks 🙂

As for why your fix worked, I can only assume that something is going wrong with how your child theme style.css is being read. Do other changes you make to style.css take effect? style.css in your child theme should be where 99% of all of your CSS edits go, so if that's not working, you may want to look into it! Either way, glad you got it working, and good luck with the site!

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Well, it was actually the first change I did in my CSS, the child theme is untouched. No idea why it's behaving like that, but happy that we got this done for the moment even if with a workaround 🙂

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