Hi guys,

I am having trouble changing the text colour in a wordpress theme.

The text is a link and is in a sidebar but it is being over written by a main command for all text link colours. In a normal html document I would know what to do but wordpress is a bit different.

Here is the sidebar code.....

#sidebar-left {
background:#98A4B0 none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:2px solid #000000;
float:left;
font-size:1em;
margin-left:20px;
padding:0.5em 0.2em 2em 1em;
width:198px;
}


.....and somewhere else in the CSS is this....

a {
color:#475D74;
text-decoration:none;
}

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers.

DB

You need to add

a.sidebar-left {
style stuff
}

it will then override the default "a" style

a.sidebar-left { would refer to an <a>nchor element with a class of sidebar

to style an <a>nchor that is a child node of sidebar-left use

.sidebar-left a {

Sorry to mess you around guys.

There was another section near the bottom of the CSS page on 'sidebars'.... I feel an ***, but am left wondering why all relevant info wasn't put near each other.

With over 600 lines of code a newbie gets a little lost....also I relied to heavily on Firefox's Firebug to help finding the problem areas instead of manually looking.

Lesson learnt.

DB