RossB

Hmm, interesting suggestion. I just tried switching to the unedited parent theme, and other than losing all my styling mods (of course), the content is properly centered. So, I must have caused this uncentered content phenomenon with some mod, correct?

Which begs the question, how do I track down what I’ve done wrong? Arrrggghh!

Ha! Thanks Seacoast Web Design!

I’ve since been doing some more messing around and have figured out how Custom Menus works – very cool. Was able to exclude the page I didn’t want showing up on the nav bar menu, plus see now how terrifically flexible and convenient the Custom Menus are.

But wouldn’t have known the default Pages Menu was retrievable as you’ve described, so good to have that info.

Cheers!
Ross

Thanks paulwpxp, but I’m using a child theme. There’s no Developer tab, Browse in Trac etc that I can find. So, how would I get the line numbers displaying in a child theme, pls?

I’m learning about coding but am far from competent at it so far, and I have many gaps in my knowledge. For example, I don’t understand what you mean when you say it’s better to use a code editor that has line numbering. Do you mean changing the Twenty Twelve Stylesheet for something else? Would be appreciative of some clarification, pls.

Cheers
Ross

Thanks, esmi. Will work through your suggestions and see what happens. Sorta doubt it will turn out to be anything to do with plugins, because I only have Akismet – but we shall see…

Cheers
Ross

Your recommended code has fixed the defaulting to standard text issue, Andrew – great! Thank you. You’ve taught me a lot just in this exchange.

If you don’t mind, 2 more questions, pls.

1. Which types of styling should go above the media query close-off, and which should come after – other than .ednotes, obviously? Is there any sort of general rule I should apply from now on?

2. Since it’s better to change
margin-top: -24px;
to
top: -24px;
position: relative;

does it follow that it would also be better to change
margin-bottom: 14px;
to
bottom: 14px
position: relative;
?

Cheers!
Ross

OK, back with the glad news that I’ve managed to position the editorial note just as I wanted it. I ended up deviating slightly from my initial intention to have the notes appear immediately under the preceding para, deciding after experimenting that a bit more of a gap looked better.

I have you to thank, Andrew, for setting me on the track I ended up taking. It was your last bit of code, showing how to give the ed notes a margin bottom, that opened the way forward for me. From there, I arrived at the following, which gave me the look I decided was best:

.ednotes {
color:#0000FF;
font-size: .8rem;
line-height: 1.1rem;
text-align: justify;
margin-bottom: 14px;
margin-top: -24px;
width: 90%;
padding: 10px;
}

I feel that I’ve shirked the hard work, since I got where I wanted without learning to apply Jquery or CSS nth-child, but rest assured, I’ve copied your solutions to a file I’m compiling for future reference.

Just one thing. Would be interested in any feedback on the code I finally applied. I know nothing about the fundamentals of good CSS practice. Is my solution OK? I know it’s simple, and it works, but are there aspects to it that are inelegant and a no-no in the context of CSS best practice? Keen to learn to do things the “right” way.

Cheers and thanks again!
Ross

Yep, a lot seems to depend on the mod. That was sorta my sub-text 😉

And as you say, Andrew, help may well come anyway, depending on who’s around. I’ve had some terrific CSS and other assistance here from very generous and willing parties, including you.

No, I haven’t heard of CSS nth-child. I assume, since you mention it, that it’s relevant to the space problem I’m having…but…

Eyes falling out now, and need some zzedz, so will return fresh and hopeful tomorrow.

Cheers!
Ross

I thought it was a very specific issue I asked about. Don’t really understand what’s acceptable to ask here and what’s not, then. I’ve seen lots of questions like this one asked here – and answered. Including some of mine.

Thing is, I thought this was a WordPress-specific question, because I’ve copied my current code into Stackoverflow’s ‘TryIt’ editor and can get it to look how I want there. Yet, the same code doesn’t work in my Twenty-Twelve child theme. I would have stated this, but didn’t think there was a need.

But whatever you say I guess, esmi.

Thanks.
Ross