Title: making text widgets look normal
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# making text widgets look normal

 *  [mzadorian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzadorian/)
 * (@mzadorian)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-text-widgets-look-normal/)
 * Our wordpress site is at [http://blog.wirelessground.com](http://blog.wirelessground.com)
   Some widgets don’t look normal, i want to insert HTML, but not have the site’s
   template rearrange or create the blue bars you see, is that possible?

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 *  [davoscript](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davoscript/)
 * (@davoscript)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-text-widgets-look-normal/#post-1637551)
 * What do you mean by “normal”? Well I see your text widgets doesn’t have padding(
   inner margin) that makes them look “out of context”; you could wrap the content
   of your text widgets with a div adding padding:
 *     ```
       <div style="padding:10px;">
         Your text here...
       </div>
       ```
   
 * Now if you don’t want the blue bar for the title in the right column, you should
   edit the style.css file of your theme, go to line 171 and edit the “background”
   property, for example, make them grey:
 * `background: #CCC;`
 * Hope this help you, let me know if I didn’t got your problem in the right way.
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [mzadorian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzadorian/)
 * (@mzadorian)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-text-widgets-look-normal/#post-1637753)
 * Thank you for response, to clarify, if i want to insert HTML that doesn’t get
   affected by the theme, is that possible. For example, whenever i insert a link
   to a site, my theme authomatically puts an arrow next to the link.
 * Thanks
 *  [davoscript](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davoscript/)
 * (@davoscript)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-text-widgets-look-normal/#post-1637767)
 * Hi, yes, what you need to do is to overwrite the CSS properties that the Theme
   is adding to your html, for example if you want that your links not to have an
   image as background (supposing the arrow is an image), you could do one of the
   next techniques:
 * **#1** You can specify the CSS in the tag itself:
    `<a href="http://www.wordpress.
   org" style="background-image:none;" >Wordpress</a>`
 * **#2** Add a CSS Class in your HTML/Text Widget:
 *     ```
       <div class="myStyle">
         <a href="http://www.wordpress.org" >Wordpress</a>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * Then in your style.css file:
 *     ```
       .myStyle a{
         color:#000;
         background-image: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * That will overwrite the background property and will specify the color of the
   text too. You can add as many properties as you wish.
 * Let me know if this help you or if you need more detailed explanation.
 * Regards.

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