• Resolved m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)


    Hi!

    I have some issues on my wordpress blog I am trying to get rid of using CSS. (I have a child theme.)

    Now, everyone suggested firebug, so I went ahead and started working with it. I actually found some code, edited it, saw the exact change I needed. I copied the code into my child theme’s CSS expecting it to work out.

    This however did nothing.
    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks

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  • No way to say without more info and probably a link to your site. That’s usually because your CSS is not specific enough, needed to be in a media query or has syntax errors.

    Thread Starter m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)

    First: thank you for your response.

    Then:

    Link: http://www.dlfsymposium.nl/
    Username: [ redacted ]
    Password: [ redacted ]

    For example: one of my issues is: on every page there is a thin grey line beneath the lowest content and above the site generator.

    Here is a link of a picture where you can see the grey line: http://nl.tinypic.com/r/27xnnrp/5

    This code:

    #supplementary {
      border-top: 1px solid #DDDDDD;
      overflow: hidden;
      padding: 1.625em 7.6%;
    }

    When I change 1px to 0 the line disappears. When I change 1.625em 7.6% to 0 0 the area beneath the content and above the site generator gets smaller in firefox / firebug.

    However when I put it in my child theme’s style.css, nothing changes. I already tried refreshing without using the cache and such.

    I hope I have informed you enough

    Thread Starter m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)

    Oh, and I was just reading this: http://codex.wordpress.org/I_Make_Changes_and_Nothing_Happens

    And did several things, but this did not help, I hope you can find the problem!

    Thread Starter m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)

    Oh, btw: this is an earlier post of mine.

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/decreasing-distance-between-two-images?replies=13

    Here I succeeded.

    I am trying the exact same thing right now (next to what I just described) with the exact same code. So it seems the code would be right.

    Just thought of this, hope it helps.

    The user ID & password combination do not work.

    Thread Starter m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)

    Sorry 🙁

    Username: [ redacted ]
    Password: [ redacted ]

    This should do.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    @m4n4g3m3nt, are you sure that’s safe even with a dummy account?

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    @m4n4g3m3nt Please do not post user id and password information like that here. It just puts needless barriers in the way of people trying to assist you. Just like posting email addresses that’s also discouraged.

    If you want assistance then please unlock the site in question.

    However when I put it in my child theme’s style.css, nothing changes. I already tried refreshing without using the cache and such.

    It’s because you have a syntax error. You are missing a closing brace in your #page selector. Change this:

    #page {
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 1000px;
    
    img.alignleft,
    img.alignright,
    img.aligncenter {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    }

    to this:

    #page {
    margin: 0 auto;
    max-width: 1000px;
    }
    
    img.alignleft,
    img.alignright,
    img.aligncenter {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    }

    Thread Starter m4n4g3m3nt

    (@m4n4g3m3nt)

    I’m sorry, I thought it would be neat this way. I changed it.

    But: CrouchingBruin’s response worked. You’d think I’d catched that myself.

    Thank you so very very much! The majority of my issues went away immediately.

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