Title: need help modifying menu bar
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# need help modifying menu bar

 *  Resolved [Lucas Pool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrileypool/)
 * (@lrileypool)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-modifying-menu-bar/)
 * My menu items are separated by two backslashes; i want to get rid of those and
   for the menu items to just be separated by space. Additionally, the font looks
   a little blurry to me. Is this because it is “floating” a bit, and can i change
   that? finally, i need the color behind the menus (which is black) to be a little
   darker and less transparent. Please help!
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 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-modifying-menu-bar/#post-6407109)
 * Firstly your question would get a better response in the “Themes and templates”
   section.
    All of your questions are about your theme, and you can with varying
   degrees of effort fix all of them. You may also find it rewarding to ask your
   questions in the support forum for your specific theme. Your way forward is firstly
   convert to using a child theme, details here: creating a child theme [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * Then you will be able to change the colour and opacity of your menu bar by using
   custom css. Also change the menu font and drop shadow.
    To change the menu separator,
   put this into your custom css.
 *     ```
       .nav-menu > li > a::before {
           content: "";
       }
       ```
   
 * For all of this work use a browser inspector like firebug (for firefox), it will
   show you how your page is being constructed and how the css is being used.
 *  Thread Starter [Lucas Pool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrileypool/)
 * (@lrileypool)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-modifying-menu-bar/#post-6407174)
 * Thank you for your help

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## Tags

 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [navigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/navigation/)
 * [navigation bar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/navigation-bar/)

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 * Last reply from: [Lucas Pool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrileypool/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-modifying-menu-bar/#post-6407174)
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