Style is a CSS function. The functions.php file is creating the markup for the widget but your border would generally be best handled via the CSS.
Styling a specific widget with its own specific properties may also be widget specific as well, not all plugins provide sufficient CSS elements to style them uniquely.
Knowing which specific widget you want to style may also be helpful … a link to your blog and/or theme may also be useful.
Sure, you can view an image of what I am trying to accomplish at:
http://www.jwbriggs.net/z/sidebarexample.jpg
Just trying to put a border around and slightly narrow the widget content.
But from what I have researched and what you are suggesting it looks like the content of the widget is specific to the widget itself, which means it would not allow the user to arbitrarily add widgets that weren’t specifically formatted with CSS.
Any way around this? Thanks,
J
The image you provided a link to shows a fairly homogeneous style for the widgets. The border around the widget content in each “block” is the same and would typically be done using the same CSS element.
Now, for example, if you wanted the middle “box” to have a thicker border, or dotted, or none at all you would need to be able to specifically identify that widget.
This may be possible from the theme’s design, or if the widget is using its own “wrapping” CSS element, but if neither of these criteria are being met then you may find it to be a significant challenge to use standard CSS to manipulate the style of the particular widget.
You might consider some sort of java script to accomplish this but that would leave the aesthetics of the site to the choice of your readers having java scripting enabled in their browsers.
OK, I got it. I was just looking for a common class associated with all of the instances of widget content. There isn’t one, but most of them can be customized by the unordered list tag (in my theme at least). I’ll still have to apply css to the stragglers like text widgets, but this takes care of most of my issues. Thanks for the help.
J
You may be able to edit your theme’s function.php file to add a “common class … to all the instances of the widget content”.
Have a look at this page as a point of reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebars
