Title: Tweet Embed Style Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Tweet Embed Style * [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/) * WordPress has the ability to embed tweets just by putting the link the actual tweet in the content area of a post. * See here: [http://robertdall.com/2012/08/27/the-london-2012-games-was-a-real-social-sport/](http://robertdall.com/2012/08/27/the-london-2012-games-was-a-real-social-sport/) * But the white on the dark background is a bit jarring. I have tried a number of CSS overrides to get a slightly darker background on the embed tweets to no avail. I am wondering if I can override the embedded style without need of a plugin. * Theme: Child Theme of Twenty Thirteen WP: 3.6 beta 4 * ps. While I am using a beta version of WP… I didn’t think it right for the beta discussion forum. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872045) * Try: * ``` body .standalone-tweet ``` * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872054) * Hi Andrew * Thanks for such a quick response. * I did try that to no avail. * What I suspect is the issue is that when you emded the tweet it embeds and iframe and long with that iframe comes a whole lot of inline style. See bottom of post. * I tried the Chris Coyer method: [http://css-tricks.com/override-inline-styles-with-css/](http://css-tricks.com/override-inline-styles-with-css/) * and I got a border to apply (since removed) But I couldn’t change the background. * `` * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872057) * Where did you add it? [http://robertdall.com/wp-content/themes/r2d2/style.css?ver=3.6-beta4](http://robertdall.com/wp-content/themes/r2d2/style.css?ver=3.6-beta4) * _Edit_: NVM found it * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872067) * > and long with that iframe comes a whole lot of inline style * It’s more sinister than that. It looks like your stylesheets cannot target the iframe nor its child elements whatsoever, disregarding any CSS specificity. * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872068) * Can you try switching to the Twenty Twelve theme to see whether the issue persists? * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872069) * So would you say this is an error / omission in Twenty Thirteen? * Can it be attributed to that? * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872074) * I’m waiting for you to answer that. * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872079) * Damn cross posting… I didn’t see you reply… When I posted… I will try one of my dev builds and post a reply… * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872092) * Hey Andrew * I tried that on my sandbox build on Twenty Twelve [http://sandbox.robertdall.com/?p=853](http://sandbox.robertdall.com/?p=853) To no avail 🙁 * CSS is just below reset in the CSS sheet. * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872123) * I have some bad news and some worse news: * By Default Twitter is not a fan of you messing with the style of there embed… * [https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/4372](https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/4372) * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872129) * As they’ve purposely made this difficult for developers, there may also be a clause in their policy that states you cannot customise it. So be it. * What was the issue, that it was too bright against your background? * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872136) * Ya that was my only issue it was the white against my darker theme background… * Other then that I was happy with the embed… * [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/) * (@anevins) * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872137) * Looks like you can change the styling using their API to a darker themed colour [https://twitframe.com/](https://twitframe.com/) * Thread Starter [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * (@rdall) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872156) * I will take a look at it Andrew. * I won’t mark this as resolved until I have tried the solution…  * Thanks for you assistance 🙂 Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) The topic ‘Tweet Embed Style’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [embeds](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/embeds/) * [twenty thirteen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twenty-thirteen/) * [twitter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/twitter/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 14 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Robert Dall](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdall/) * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tweet-embed-style/#post-3872156) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics