Something is stopping me from formatting text

  • Resolved rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    I am trying to format the text for the post meta data on my page – for some reason it will only let me change the color – not the font size and style – If I inspect the element with developer tools there is a strikethrough the line for size – I’m not sure what is stopping me from making changes – I am editing the style.css file in my child theme dir which I thought kind of took priority over everything else…
    the url is http://www.daily-mash.com/wordpress2

    thanks in advance for your help!

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    No, child theme styles follow the same CSS “rules” as any other styles – so you probably need to use more specific selectors.

    Firebug (or other browser tool) should show you which CSS is active — and then you should be able to use those same selectors in your child theme. Is that what you are doing?

    Can you be specific about what you are trying to change and the code you are using?

    Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    here is my CSS…if you look I changed the size of the font to 25 but it is not changing on the page – what does that mean when a portion of the text has a line through it?

    http://pastebin.com/8PbFTBbb

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Read up on CSS Specificity.
    You’re not using specific-enough selectors.

    Edit: Link amended.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    What font on what element – what are you trying to change? I can see all the CSS on your site – no need to post that.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Are you using Firebug? It shows you all the information you need.

    Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I am using chrome developer tools

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    It should do the same thing. When you look at whatever text you are trying to change, what does it show as the active CSS for that element?

    Thread Starter rileybetka

    (@rileybetka)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I got it thank you!

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