Title: Need help styling nav menu
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Need help styling nav menu

 *  Resolved [BetsyS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/betsys/)
 * (@betsys)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-styling-nav-menu/)
 * I have been trying without success to change the styling on my basic navigation
   menu. I just want really simple style changes, but when I look on Firebug to 
   see where the relevant CSS is, I get all these different lines and layers of 
   inherited code, and I don’t know which ones are the relevant ones. Someone else
   tried to help me, earlier today on here, and said that there is something blocking
   the CSS changes. I don’t understand. Should I take away my downloaded font, and
   empty out my child theme style sheet, and start over?
 * I have been studying the codex and forums, but with no success. I understand 
   how to style simple lists from scratch with html, but can’t figure out how to
   penetrate WordPress’s php dynamic environment.
 * All I want is to be able to remove that black background to the nav bar, and 
   just have words for the different page links, sitting on top of a horizontal 
   line. And I want to style the colors and font size and so on.
 * Thanks for anyone’s help. My site is [here.](http://betsysharp.com)

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 *  Thread Starter [BetsyS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/betsys/)
 * (@betsys)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-styling-nav-menu/#post-2517224)
 * OK, I started with a brand new empty child theme and it’s starting to work.

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 * Last reply from: [BetsyS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/betsys/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-styling-nav-menu/#post-2517224)
 * Status: resolved

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