CSS span

Are you using an image as the background or are you going to apply a CSS gradient?

Basically, you are going to assign a class to any paragraph where you want this special background. For example:

<p class="box_background">Blah blah blah</p>

Then you would define a CSS rule that applies to elements which have that clsss:

.box_background {
   background-image: url('/images/shaded_box.jpg');
}

The above rule would set the background image of all elements having a class of box_background to the image pointed to by the url value.

Maybe I misunderstood your question: there’s also a technique for drawing a shadowed box around your paragraph; is that what you are asking, and not using an image in the background?

And as a side note, Expound doesn’t have a Custom CSS option, so if you want to add CSS, you’ll need to either create a child theme or use a CSS plugin (easier).

Hi CrouchingBruin, thanks for taking the time. I want to use css and just use a rule to make certain paragraphs, or page sections, a different shade, sort of like a highlight. No image, just a border & a background colour. I have a child theme, I’m just not sure how to deploy the css

I have a child theme, I’m just not sure how to deploy the css

That’s easy, just add it to the end of your child theme’s style.css file, after the import statement.