• morningcup

    (@morningcup)


    Hi, bit of a newbie here. Very happy to have found Shortcode Ultimate, generally happy that I can do so much with it.

    Now I am trying my hand at modifying the appearance of the spoilers. I am making FAQs for our company’s website and trying to match the FAQs with the rest of the website. I managed to modify the color, font size and line height of both the Spoiler Title and the Spoiler Content (I basically copied all the code related to Spoiler into the Custom CSS space and started playing around). However, I cannot seem to modify the space between paragraphs. I tried modifying margin-bottom and padding-bottom at several parts of the code, but nothing works.

    Also, when I tried to simply put a space between paragraphs (basically hitting <enter> twice to move the line down) in the relevant Pages area of wordpress, the second paragraph then just drops all the modified formatting. So being a super noob here and can’t seem to find any solution to this. Can anyone help? Would be very grateful for any guidance.

    My code is below:

    .su-spoiler { margin-bottom: 1.5em; }
    .su-spoiler .su-spoiler:last-child { margin-bottom: 20px; }
    .su-accordion { margin-bottom: 1.5em; }
    .su-accordion .su-spoiler { margin-bottom: 0.5em; }
    .su-spoiler-title {
    	position: relative;
    	cursor: pointer;
    	min-height: 20px;
    	line-height: 20px;
    	padding: 7px 7px 7px 34px;
    	font-weight: bold;
    	font-size: 13px;
    	color: #e3e3e3;
    }
    .su-spoiler-icon {
    	position: absolute;
    	left: 7px;
    	top: 7px;
    	display: block;
    	width: 20px;
    	height: 20px;
    	line-height: 21px;
    	text-align: center;
    	font-size: 14px;
    	font-family: FontAwesome;
    	font-weight: normal;
    	font-style: normal;
    	-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    	*margin-right: .3em;
    	color: #f9a52f;
    }
    .su-spoiler-content {
    	padding: 14px;
    	color: #969696;
    	font-size: 13px;
    	line-height: 21px;
    	-webkit-transition: padding-top .2s;
    	-moz-transition: padding-top .2s;
    	-o-transition: padding-top .2s;
    	transition: padding-top .2s;
    	-ie-transition: padding-top .2s;
    }
    .su-spoiler.su-spoiler-closed > .su-spoiler-content {
    	height: 0;
    	margin: 0;
    	padding: 0;
    	overflow: hidden;
    	border: none;
    	opacity: 0;
    }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f068"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f067"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-circle .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f056"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-circle.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f055"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-square-1 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f146"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-square-1.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f0fe"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-square-2 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f117"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-plus-square-2.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f116"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f063"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f061"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow-circle-1 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f0ab"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow-circle-1.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f0a9"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow-circle-2 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f01a"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-arrow-circle-2.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f18e"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-chevron .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f078"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-chevron.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f054"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-chevron-circle .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f13a"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-chevron-circle.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f138"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-caret .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f0d7"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-caret.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f0da"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-caret-square .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f150"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-caret-square.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f152"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-folder-1 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f07c"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-folder-1.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f07b"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-folder-2 .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f115"; }
    .su-spoiler-icon-folder-2.su-spoiler-closed .su-spoiler-icon:before { content: "\f114"; }
    .su-spoiler-style-default { }
    .su-spoiler-style-default > .su-spoiler-title {
    	padding-left: 27px;
    	padding-right: 0;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-default > .su-spoiler-title > .su-spoiler-icon { left: 0; }
    .su-spoiler-style-default > .su-spoiler-content { padding: 1em 0 1em 27px; }
    .su-spoiler-style-fancy {
    	border: 1px solid #ccc;
    	-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
    	-moz-border-radius: 10px;
    	border-radius: 10px;
    	background: #fff;
    	color: #333;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-fancy > .su-spoiler-title {
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
    	-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
    	-moz-border-radius: 10px;
    	border-radius: 10px;
    	background: #f0f0f0;
    	font-size: 0.9em;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-fancy.su-spoiler-closed > .su-spoiler-title { border: none; }
    .su-spoiler-style-fancy > .su-spoiler-content {
    	-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
    	-moz-border-radius: 10px;
    	border-radius: 10px;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-simple {
    	border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-simple > .su-spoiler-title {
    	padding: 5px 10px;
    	background: #f0f0f0;
    	color: #333;
    	font-size: 0.9em;
    }
    .su-spoiler-style-simple > .su-spoiler-title > .su-spoiler-icon { display: none; }
    .su-spoiler-style-simple > .su-spoiler-content {
    	padding: 1em 10px;
    	background: #fff;
    	color: #333;
    }

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  • GoldHatTrick

    (@goldhattrick)

    Paragraph spacing is via the p tag. Changing just the p tag will change it everywhere.

    If you want to change just the paragraph spacing inside the spoilers only, you can add a custom class to the spoiler for p tags in spoilers only by being very exact in your selectors.

    Example:

    The CSS: .bigp > .su-spoiler-content p {margin-bottom: 5em;}

    This says for parent class .bigp, make all p tags in su-spoiler-content have this css.

    The spoiler shortcode: [su_spoiler title=”TITLE” class=”bigp”]Content

    New paragraph

    Next paragraph[/su_spoiler]

    Keep in mind that the spacing will be kept for every p tag in the spoiler, including the last one. If you want to change the very last p tag so there is more or less space between the last text & the bottom of the spoiler container, add something like this to the css:

    .bigp > .su-spoiler-content p:last-child {margin-bottom: 1.5em;}

    This should change the spacing under the last p tag only.

    Thread Starter morningcup

    (@morningcup)

    Hey there, thank you for the quick response, really appreciate.

    I did what you suggested, but it didn’t do anything. I put it at the first line of the Custom CSS. On top of that whole bunch of code I pasted in my first message.

    Maybe I put it in the wrong place? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

    GoldHatTrick

    (@goldhattrick)

    Just to clarify your “on top of that whole bunch of code” – you mean that you put the css declaration in the custom css settings page, saved it & then put the spoiler shortcode with contents in the html page/post editor, right?

    Things to check:

    1) Any custom css has to be the very last thing in order to overwrite the previous css. Anything that comes after will overwrite whatever went before.

    Likewise, any inline css will overwrite other internal css.

    So, try putting the custom change as the very last thing instead of the first thing.

    2a) Being as specific in your selectors is best too. You can try adding more specificity to ensure your custom css gets applied to exactly what you want.

    Using lots of very specific selectors is the best way of controlling custom css without mucking up other coding but can be the hardest to figure out.

    2b) You can check what is actually getting applied to what element by looking at your page with developer tools. This can tell you what is getting applied, overwritten and by what. You can also figure out element order/relationships.

    The selectors & order I used in my example was how the flow was on my page. You might need more selectors or more specific selectors if you have more elements.

    3) It may be that your carriage return isn’t generating p tags. The custom css isn’t going to be applied to any other tag. The WP default is to add p tags automatically but this can be turned off.

    4) Also, be sure you have cleared all caches to be able to see new changes.

    5) If there was an !important put in somewhere, you can’t override those until the !important is removed. You should be able to see if this was done via the developer tools.

    6) Double check that your theme or another plugin isn’t overriding your custom css. Since p tags are ubiquitous, themes have a tendency to want full control of them.

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