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1. ettrickside
   Member
   Jan 9, 2010, 7:25 PM

   This is a newbie question. I have WordPress.com Garland with the CSS upgrade. I wanted to change title colour to black and have managed to edit the css to do this. However when I preview, the title colour has changed but so have the other colours on the page. If I save I cannot then use the colour customiser to get the header etc to change colour.

   Thanks

   The blog I need help with is ettrickside.wordpress.com.

2. timethief
   Member
   Jan 9, 2010, 7:27 PM

   I'm sorry but the volunteers who answer CSS questions do not appear to be logged in at this time. Please be patient and wait for them to find this post when they do log-in and visit the forum.

3. cvanhasselt
   Member
   Jan 10, 2010, 5:43 PM

   Your blog is private, so it is hard (well, impossible, to be honest!) to diagnose your problem in specific. However, it sounds like what you have done is change the color via a "global" css selector.

   A big key to understanding CSS is the final specificity principle: The last most specific rule is applied. A brief example:

   Let's say you have two CSS rules such as

   body { color: blue; }
   p { color: red; }

   Here, all text will be blue, except text inside paragraph tags, which will be red. If you want some things to be green, you could assign a class, to make more specific rules:

   .green { color: #0c0; }
   p.green { color: green }

   The first rule would specify a mid-tone green, for anything with class="green"; the second more specific rule would specify that a paragraph with class="green" would be a bright green. Since this is a more specific rule, and, as it happens, is last in order, that is the rule that would apply to paragraphs.

   More info than you asked for, but the gist of it is, sounds like your rule isn't specific enough. Hope that helps.

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