Title: [Feature Request] Styling numbers
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# [Feature Request] Styling numbers

 *  Resolved [Josh Rickert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/of-doom/)
 * (@of-doom)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/)
 * Love the plugin! It’s just missing one thing… All I really need is a <span> and
   a class so I can style the numbers and make it look less like a sentence and 
   more like a clock. Maybe some way to remove those commas (either with the options
   or with my own css). Kinda like [this](http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html).
 * There are plenty of “clock” style countdown plugins out there but this one seems
   the most robust in terms of letting me schedule events and have them change over
   as time goes on, so I’d like to stick with it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/countdown-timer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/countdown-timer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [fergbrain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fergbrain/)
 * (@fergbrain)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980736)
 * [@josh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josh/) Rickert: have you tried using
   the CSS classes listed in [https://wordpress.org/plugins/countdown-timer/installation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/countdown-timer/installation/)?
 *  Thread Starter [Josh Rickert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/of-doom/)
 * (@of-doom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980737)
 * Hey, thanks for the response. Yeah, I originally thought it was a problem with
   selector specificity, but later realized the plugin was outputting malformed 
   HTML and that was causing my problems. So my browser was trying to nest one number
   inside the next, DOM-wise.
 * I ended up forking the plugin and fixing it myself to solve my client’s issue.
   I think I added a few extra span tags so I could hide the commas, etc, but it’s
   been a while so I’ve forgotten. If you’d like to take a look at my changes, let
   me know and I’ll put my fork online for you.
 *  Plugin Author [fergbrain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fergbrain/)
 * (@fergbrain)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980738)
 * I’d love to look at your changes if you’re willing to share.
 *  Thread Starter [Josh Rickert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/of-doom/)
 * (@of-doom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980739)
 * Not sure if there’s a better way to send these to you… Here’s a [diff](http://joshrickert.com/misc/countdown-timer/countdown-timer-patch.diff)
   of my changes. I think the addslashes() was mangling the HTML.
 * Here’s [an example](http://joshrickert.com/misc/countdown-timer/styled.jpg) (
   [scss](http://joshrickert.com/misc/countdown-timer/countdown-timer-styles.scss))
   of how I ended up styling it after the changes. N
 *  Plugin Author [fergbrain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fergbrain/)
 * (@fergbrain)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980740)
 * Would you be able to post the entire file as gist: [https://gist.github.com/](https://gist.github.com/)?
   That way I can easily branch it to the code ([https://github.com/fergbrain/countdown-timer](https://github.com/fergbrain/countdown-timer))
 *  Thread Starter [Josh Rickert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/of-doom/)
 * (@of-doom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980741)
 * I didn’t notice you had it on github. I’ll send a pull request.
 *  Plugin Author [fergbrain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fergbrain/)
 * (@fergbrain)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980742)
 * Even better! Thank you very much!
 *  Thread Starter [Josh Rickert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/of-doom/)
 * (@of-doom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-styling-numbers/#post-4980743)
 * No problem. [Pull request is submitted](https://github.com/fergbrain/countdown-timer/pull/33).
   I think it would knock out quite a few of your feature requests pertaining to
   styling flexibility (remove commas or spacer words, etc). It’s been awhile so
   I can’t quite remember, but I think it fixes your [closing tag issue](https://github.com/fergbrain/countdown-timer/issues/30).
   I had the same debugging process and ended up realizing it was a problem with
   the HTML on the PHP side before it was ever handed off to your JS for display.

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