[Mag]

Please don’t ask me to send a link. The person I am building the site for wants to keep everything private until she opens her business.

I’m having an issue with 2 CSS tweaks.
Both work ok in web developer mode but when I add them to the custom CSS area the changes don’t stick – even with !important

Want to change the background of the entire bottom section to be the same as the content background… I think the correct rule is #forbottom
Have tried background and background-color… both work in dev mode.

The other is that I want to add a teensy bit of letter spacing to a google font I’ve chosen, “crushed” which is a unicase font… Again it works in developer mode but not in the custom CSS. Stumped… any advice will be appreciated. I apologize for not including a link.

Installed plugins are:
Events Manager
Lightbox Plus ColorBox
No Page Comment
Post Tags and Categories for Pages
Post Type Switcher
Private Blog
WP FullCalendar

[Zed]

Parabola has colour options for the footer area. You shouldn’t need to use custom CSS for that.

As for the font, it’s all up to the CSS rule you use. Did you double-check it shows up in the source code of the page after you save it? Is it the exact rule you test in the dev tools?

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[Jim King]

Hi Mag

For the first issue both are available in Parabola color settings….. footer background (last one in General) and content background (first one in Content) just set them to the same colors (colours.. :-))

Second bit if I find anything I’ll get back to you 🙂

Jim..

[Mag]

Hi Zed and Jim,

I am so sorry to word my question badly. I don’t want to change the footer color. The content and sidebar widgets show up as blocks on the background … if I change #forbottom to be the same color with the developer tools, the body behind both the content and the widgets is solid but the background still shows on either side… kind of like the way Mantra looks. I could change the entire background to match the content but that changes the look altogether and kind of flattens things out.

Re the font… when I reload the page the rule that I have inserted in the custom CSS does not show and it is the exact rule I used to make it change with the developer tools. Stumped.

[Mag]

OMG…I am so stupid… I checked the Custom CSS and I hadn’t closed out an earlier rule with a final bracket… Everything is working now… just shoot me now. So sorry to take up your time. Thanks so much for trying to help me. I’m beyond help.

[Mag]

So sorry, one more dumb question in reerence to the page background… in Mantra there was the opportunity to remove the white which is now showing due to the custom CSS … there is no option to remove it parabola… is there a way to do this easily with CSS?

[Zed]

In Parabola you can remove all background colours (something that can’t be done in Mantra), so I’m not sure which white you mean.

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[Mag]

The white I am referring to is the setting in Mantra that says remove the white areas on the presentation page…

In parabola that was already removed until I added the #forbottom color which fills in behind botht eh content and widget areas. … now from the slider down it is the #forbottom color … behind the columns as well… Just wondered if there is a separate CSS rule for that area since my developer tools aren’t picking up on it and I’ve browsed through the css file as well.

and you are probably thinking why not just use Mantra if you are trying to make parabola look like Mantra… right? There’s some cool tweaks in parabola that aren’t in Mantra.

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