Changing blue text

  • entrelin

    (@entrelin)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m so sorry for having to ask a stupid question but I’m completely new at this and I’m struggling! I really need to change the blue colour of the trigger text (header?). I tried following the guidelines, i.e. adding the following rule to my theme’s stylesheet:

    .tippy_header {
    font-size: 3;
    color: black;
    }

    That didn’t work so I tried following the instruction to copy the tooltip’s css to my theme´s folder but I think I did it wrong. First of all, I couldn´t find the plugins/tippy/tippy.css file so I tried copying another css file (jquery.tippy.css) which mentioned header colors (well, it had tippy_header {
    background-color: #ccc; which I don´t think is what I want anyway). I just copied all the text from this file-maybe I´m supposed to copy the file as a whole? And I added it to the css stylesheet because I didn’t know where else to put it! So it´s no wonder it didn´t work really!

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you,

    Kerry

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tippy/

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  • Plugin Author Chris Roberts

    (@columcille)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Copy the file itself to your theme folder. If Tippy sees it in your theme folder, it will use that one rather than the one that came with the plugin.

    As for adding the rule to your theme’s stylesheet, make sure the rule is more specific than the default rule so the browser knows which set of rules to follow. Something as simple as “body .tippy_header” should do it. Look up CSS specificity to learn more about what’s going on.

    Thread Starter entrelin

    (@entrelin)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Chris,

    Thank you so much for the quick reply-I really appreciate it! Unfortunately I still haven’t been able to get this to work-I think you might be underestimating how utterly clueless I am!

    I tried copying the following to my theme’s stylesheet but to no avail:

    body .tippy_header {
    font-size: 3;
    color: black;
    }

    I also have no idea how to copy the tippy file or how to access my theme folder. I tried investigating FTP but got completely lost. I also tried looking up CSS specificity but I’m still stumped as to how to frame this particular rule.

    I’m so sorry for my complete ignorance!

    Kerry

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 4 months ago

    If you’re not using a Child Theme, and if the theme doesn’t have a designated section of the dashboard for CSS modifications then install this Custom CSS Manager plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin

    Then use its “CSS Code” section of the dashboard to hold your CSS modifications.

    Alternatively use your Child Theme style.css file to hold your CSS modifications.

    Thread Starter entrelin

    (@entrelin)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Andrew,

    Thank you so much for your help. I tried copying the same rule into the CSS Manager but it doesn’t seem to have worked.

    body .tippy_header {
    font-size: 3;
    color: black;
    }

    I think I’m ready to give up now because I feel I’ve bothered you all enough! The problem is that it’s a website for learning English and there are sentences where every word triggers a hover so I use a glossary plugin for most words and tippy for the terms (phrasal verbs, etc.) that the other plugin isn’t able to recognise as one unit. It looks strange having most words grey and then the odd word blue. Not to worry, I’ll keep looking for a solution.

    Thank you,

    Kerry

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