Title: CSS Issue
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# CSS Issue

 *  Resolved [thelowerrhythm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thelowerrhythm/)
 * (@thelowerrhythm)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-issue-39/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m having trouble gaining control over two bits of text. 1. Where it says “TOPICS:”
   near the top of each post, and 2. The names of authors on the comments section.
 * Both seem to be defaulting to black. I even tried removing every single #000000
   and #000 reference from the CSS to try and single them out, but no luck. My best
   guess is that these elements are tied together stylistically, and that perhaps
   the code to control them is missing altogether (as was the code to control the
   Paragraph style).
 * I have a bit of PHP / CSS understanding, but not enough to debug this issue. 
   I’m sort of hoping it’s a simple matter of dropping in a few lines of CSS.

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-issue-39/#post-6082413)
 * Can you please post a link to your site? I just installed the theme and I don’t
   see the word TOPICS at the top of my posts. Or are you referring to the categories
   next to the post date on the blog page?
 * Also, you should not be editing the theme’s stylesheet directly. If the theme
   gets updated because of feature enhancements, bug fixes, or security patches,
   or if the theme has to be updated because of a change to the WordPress core, 
   then your changes will be lost. Instead, either create a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   or use a CSS plugin like Jetpack or [Custom CSS Manager](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/).
   Then you would write rules which override the existing rules which give elements
   their particular color.
 *  Thread Starter [thelowerrhythm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thelowerrhythm/)
 * (@thelowerrhythm)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-issue-39/#post-6082417)
 * [http://people.oregonstate.edu/~hawkj/](http://people.oregonstate.edu/~hawkj/)
   is where I’m testing it.
 * And yeah, I’ll try that out. I’ve just been creating it locally and then copying
   it to the server — I was unaware of the other options for that until just new.
 * If you click on the Xeodrifter post, for example, it’ll have some text near the
   top: “TOPICS:3DSJacob HawkReviewXeodrifter” …you’ll see that the “TOPICS:” part
   is invisible due to being black on black.
 * The B.O.B. entry is the only one with test comments, where you can see the same
   thing happening to the author names.
 * Side note… regarding the TOPICS text… for some reason the latest post doesn’t
   have that text either, like you described for your own look at it. It’s the only
   one… no idea why, will have to examine the differences between it and the other
   posts tomorrow.
 * Thanks!
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-issue-39/#post-6082420)
 * OK, so TOPICS is the label used for tags. So if you added tags to a post, those
   tags would appear with the word TOPICS next to them. You can see the tags for
   a post by going into the post editor. Down along the right side, you should see
   a section labeled **Tags**.
 * So, if you want to change the color of the TOPICS label, you would add this CSS
   using either a child theme or a CSS plugin:
 *     ```
       .entry-tags span {
          color: #fff;
       }
       ```
   
 * This changes the label to white.
 * This rule will change the color of the comment authors:
 *     ```
       .commentlist .comment .vcard {
          color: #fff;
       }
       ```
   
 * If you want to change the appearance of other elements, you’ll want to learn 
   how to use a web debugging tool like [Firebug](http://getfirebug.com/) or [Chrome Developer Tools](https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/).
   These tools will enable you to see the CSS which are affecting a particular element
   so you can write an overriding rule for it.
 *  Thread Starter [thelowerrhythm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thelowerrhythm/)
 * (@thelowerrhythm)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-issue-39/#post-6082545)
 * Oh man, thanks so much. Especially for the links to the debugging tools! I so
   very much appreciate it!

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 * Status: resolved