Title: Noob Theme Edit changing button text
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Noob Theme Edit changing button text

 *  [vp229](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vp229/)
 * (@vp229)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/)
 * Hello there,
 * So I am a complete noob, and I am learning as I go along. However this issue 
   has totally thrown me off guard.
 * I have a button which says “Apply” on it and I have used firebug to find the 
   code for it:
 * <input type=”button” value=”Apply” class=”application_button”>
 * But I need it to read “Apply If Logged In”
 * So I did an edit using firebug to this:
 * <input type=”button” value=”Apply If Logged In” class=”application_button”>
 * and it works great, but now how can I edit my child theme style sheet or functions
   file so it reads correctly.
 * Any help would be awesome, I would really appreciate it.
 * Thank you in advance

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 *  [Adrian Houle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian-houle/)
 * (@adrian-houle)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4787897)
 * You can’t change code with CSS, only change the appearance. Normaly you would
   use Jquery to replace the element and exchange it with what you wanted.
 * What you can however do is use CSS add content function to add Logged In text
   to it, specify the size of the content in pixels, and then change the size of
   the apply text to extreemly small and make its color transparent so you can’t
   see it.
 * This is intermediate CSS and you said you are a beginner, so if you link me your
   website I will show you the code to do it.
 * Cheers,
    -Adrian
 *  Thread Starter [vp229](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vp229/)
 * (@vp229)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4787900)
 * Thanks so much for getting back to me Adrian I really appreciate it.
 * So the site is [http://bit.ly/OyVdDP](http://bit.ly/OyVdDP) and the pages I need
   to change it on are for example [http://bit.ly/1lOkubE](http://bit.ly/1lOkubE)(
   the apply button on the right hand side)
 * Is there some place you could recommend me to learn CSS better please?
 * Thanks again Adrian
 *  Thread Starter [vp229](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vp229/)
 * (@vp229)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4787906)
 * I used bitly so that my site URL is not indexed by google I hope you dont mind
 *  [Adrian Houle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian-houle/)
 * (@adrian-houle)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4787969)
 * Oh dang I messed up. 1.We would not need to hide the old text, just add on “if
   logged in”
    2. But unfortunately this is not a link, it is an input button and
   so the value cannot be changed with CSS.
 *  [Adrian Houle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian-houle/)
 * (@adrian-houle)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4787970)
 * But if you wan’t to learn more about CSS I have listed all my favourites in this
   section of my website: _[Moderator note: You can just list those links here] (
   see below)_
    - Code Academy: [http://www.codecademy.com/](http://www.codecademy.com/)
    - HTML Dog: [http://htmldog.com/guides/](http://htmldog.com/guides/)
    - CSS Tricks: [http://css-tricks.com/](http://css-tricks.com/)
    - W3Schools: [http://www.w3schools.com/](http://www.w3schools.com/)
    - Stack Overflow: [http://stackoverflow.com](http://stackoverflow.com)
    - Sitepoint is apprently pretty good as well.
 *  Thread Starter [vp229](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vp229/)
 * (@vp229)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4788024)
 * Thank you kindly for trying Adrian,
 * I really do appreciate it.
 * I saw your site, nice work, the pink doesn’t bother me 🙂
 * Thanks for the sites as well.
 * You really learned to program in a month? wow!
 *  [Adrian Houle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrian-houle/)
 * (@adrian-houle)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4788067)
 * No problem. Were did I say that? I have been studying for 4 months, and am still
   learning everyday.
 * And mr moderator I only linked my page because it has supporting text for each
   link; but I guess sense it has my services on it then its not appropriate. At
   some point I will get two websites.
 *  Thread Starter [vp229](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vp229/)
 * (@vp229)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/noob-theme-edit-changing-button-text/#post-4788095)
 * I saw it on your site “by the end of the month had learned the basics of html,
   CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and SQL.” 🙂

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