Hi All, I am wanting to change the font colour that my website uses for all of the normal text. I.e. in the wordpress edit areas if i make a new page it uses a greyish color with a grey/white back ground so that makes the text harder to read. Silly design. So when I add stuff in now I am manually putting the html tags in to change the font back to black. So I am overriding the html it wants to use, I dont know how healthy this is for the sites html. The webpage is www.radarsdirect.com.au I can get into the back end and style sheets but I dont know where to start. Look forward to hearing your responses, Cheers
If you get a program like firebug you can select elements like the paragraph text and it will tell you what file and line they are on in the css files. or you can just open the files and manually look for the font you want to change.
Hey thanks for your reply, I dont know which to change on the style sheets. Is there a name I should look for?
in your WordPress Admin Panel Goes to Appearance .. Editor.. and found "Stylesheet" or files ended in .css
There are all these links on the EDIT THEMES page in the wordpress back end. Which one do you think I should show? Templates 404 Template (404.php) Archives (archive.php) Comments (comments.php) Footer (footer.php) Header (header.php) Image Attachment Template (image.php) Main Index Template (index.php) Page Template (page.php) Popup Comments (comments-popup.php) Search Results (search.php) Sidebar (sidebar.php) Single Post (single.php) Theme Functions (functions.php) archives.php (archives.php) brands.php (brands.php) links.php (links.php) Styles RTL Stylesheet (rtl.css) Stylesheet (style.css) slides.css (slides.css)
You should edit style.css but I can't say which element since I can't see the page... I asked you for the link of your theme or website so we could tell you what element to edit. Maybe you need a change in body element, maybe in some other tag...
View attachment theme website.txt View attachment theme website.txt Hope that worked. There is a notepad with that folder in it. I tried upload the text here but it wouldnt let me.
Can you make a test post without altering the style and leave a link to it? Or you can try editing style.css where you would use one of these and tell us if it helped: - color:#000000; instead color:#333333; in #content p tag (line 792 of your style.css) and/or - color:#000000; instead color:#333333; in body tag (line 24 of your style.css)
Hi I can change this it says #333 not #333333 I assume they are the same? I can change it and make a backup of the style before I do it. If it causes problems I will re-load the original. ?
Yeah, change it to #000 instead #333. If you don't edit anything around there shouldn't be any problems and you can just switch those changes back to #000, but it's not a bad idea to make backups when you're making changes in general If those changes don't help. just make a quick test page with some example test and post a link toward that particular page (so I can pinpoint the problem if it's not fixed by that #content p tag change which should do).
Done. I made a new page to see if it would come out black, unfortunately it is still the same as before. radarsdirect.com.au/test-page
It is black to me, try to visit that page with a clear cache (or refresh it with ctrl+f5). In that particular page, it is the body tag change which makes the difference (and you changed it to #000 as far as I can see after reload).
It's the same. Web colors can be defined with only 3 hexadecimal numbers while other colors require more details for the nuances (hence 6 hexadecimal numbers). Since I'm into website optimization, I tend to use 3 characters when possible since it lowers the size of files (which can be pretty significant for large websites or websites with huge amount of traffic).