{Theme: WP-Creativix]: Problems with changing text colour

The menu color is being set in this CSS:

#header #navbar a {
    color: #888888;
}

CSS is very theme specific because of the selectors — they are not the same from, so another theme is mostly irrelevant to yours. And it is often site specific as well. The best way to figure out what code to change is by using Firebug — which shows you which CSS code is affecting an element on a page.

Hi WPyogi,

I am using the same theme (WP-Creativix) as the person who posted the same question as me.

Plus, today I have been playing around with Firebug, as this was recommended in another post I read on a related topic. I experimented with changing all incidences of colour to white, but no changes at all were visible on the site.

Prtesumably, this means I am editing thew wrong file?

I’ve just done a search for #888888 in both style.css and style.php files associated with the WP-Creativix theme, but can find no occurrence of this.

Am I looking in the right place?

Best,

Sean

Look for #888 instead.

And I wouldn’t recommend you to mess with the parent theme’s CSS. Use custom CSS or a child-theme CSS and just add the line that WPyogi mentioned above.

Otherwise, just add his line to the bottom of your CSS. It should overwrite whatever written previously.

Diglodger,

I’m afraid your reply is way over my head; I know next to nothing of CSS — neither what a child theme is or what custom css is. We’re talking spoon-feeding a baby here.

Is anyone able to offer some guidance that assumes no knowledge of coding whatsoever?

When you say ‘just add his line to the bottom of your CSS’, where do you mean, exactly, and in which file?

Thanks,

Sean

All right, let’s go through this one by one ??

You can change the text of your nav bar using this:

#header #navbar a { color:#363636; /* Change #value to something you prefer, check colorpicker.com for corresponding color hex code }

Next is to where to insert that:

If you have Jetpack installed, then you can go to Appearance –> Edit CSS –> add it in there and save.

If you don’t have Jetpack, then you can add it to the end of your theme’s style.css.

As for child-theme, you can check the documentation here. You must have FTP access to your host to do this, though, and at least a basic understanding of CSS.

If CSS is necessary for the change and you have no knowledge of it, forum volunteers are not here to establish your understanding of CSS.
This extensive support extends beyond the scope of WordPress forums and you should try a more suitable forum https://csscreator.com/forum .

I just want to clarity my post. I forgot to close my comment in the style above. if you’re using that, please change it to this one:

#header #navbar a { color:#363636; /* Change #value to something you prefer, check colorpicker.com for corresponding color hex code */ }

Notice the much-needed */ at the end. Again, sorry, I didn’t check my work.

Digilodger,
Many thanks for your help. I appreciate it. I’ll have a play with this over the weekend, and see what gives.

Bingo. Many thanks, Digilodger.