Changing Readers' Comments' Colors

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  catuke · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 8:35 pm

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  The color for my readers’ comments needs to be different for ease of reading.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 8:47 pm

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  I’m not clear if one can use a custom design upgrade and CSS editing to make that chnage. I tagged this thread so it will be moved to the CSS Forum where you can get an answer to that question.

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  designsimply · Member · Mar 6, 2013 at 10:37 pm

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  Traditionally, comments by the post author are set in a different color while reader comments are left alone. Here is an example:

  .bypostauthor {
  	background: #ffe;
  }

  To target specific comment types, view the page source and look for the section of HTML that starts with:

  <div id="comments">

  Take a look at the list inside that section. Each list element has a set of classes which you can use to target them with CSS. Here is an example of the opening tag for one of the list elements in your latest post:

  <li class="comment byuser comment-author-kdonnel8 odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1 highlander-comment" id="li-comment-6">

  So, you could target that particular comment by using a selector such as “.byuser” or even “.comment-author-kdonnel8” if you wanted.