Formatting Text Widget in Quentin theme

shoreacres · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 2:29 pm
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I’ve added a text widget to my sidebar, but I have found no way to match text color to the body of the page and the rest of the sidebar, or to create paragraph breaks.

Is it possible to format the text widgets? If not, would it work to create a block of text in photoshop and upload it as a .jpg? How do I determine the pixel width of the sidebar?

Many thanks.
shoreacres · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 3:58 pm
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NOTE: I figured out the paragraph breaks. Now my only question is now to change the text color.
boblets · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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either:
font-color: red;
or define font first:
```
font-familiy: verdana, helvetica;
color: red;
```
in the css selector for you widgets.
shoreacres · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 4:16 pm
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Thanks, boblets –

I don’t do CSS – I tried using font/color with a hex number in html but couldn’t make that work. Does this require CSS?
panaghiotisadam · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 4:29 pm
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No CSS needed for hex numbers. You can use this code:
TEXT
(where TEXT is the block of text you want to change and HEX is the number of the color you want).
shoreacres · Member · Jul 13, 2008 at 4:34 pm
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Voila!! Perfect.

Thanks, panaghiotisadam! The code is just a bit different than that which had worked for me on another site.

Many thanks to you – also boblits!
gplrefdesk · Member · Aug 7, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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How do you do paragraph breaks?
shoreacres · Member · Aug 7, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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In my text widget, I used   successfully. There may be other ways to do it.
And just one   didn’t do the trick – I had to use a pair. In the body of my post, other tags are used, such as . I’m just learning, so this may not be the best method.
shoreacres · Member · Aug 7, 2008 at 9:38 pm
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Uh – don’t have a clue why the slash showed up in the above post – the “br” should look just like the span, with no slashes.

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