Need Help changing menu characteristics

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  tendress · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm

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  I am currently using the 2010 theme and have a couple issues…

  1. I would like to change the color of the black menu bar under the header to midnight blue.

  2. I want to bold the different items that appear in the menu

  3. I would like the menu to be centered on the page, not aligned to the left

  Thanks in advance for any help regarding these issues. All comments are greatly appreciated.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 9:54 pm

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  You would need the CSS upgrade and more importantly at least some general knowledge of CSS and how it relates to the markup (XHTML).

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  tendress · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 10:49 pm

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  I have the CSS upgrade….and some general knowledge of CSS (thank you very much). I was able to change the color of the menu in “style.css”. When I tried to align to center by changing
  #access {
  background: #191970;
  display: block;
  float: left;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 940px;
  }

  to

  background: #191970;
  display: block;
  float: center;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 940px;

  But… when I did this, the color changed to white and while most of the page links did in fact move to the center, the Home page link stayed on the left and the menu appeared on two lines instead of just one.

  Hopefully someone can offer some actual help on this instead of just saying I need to learn CSS.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 11:05 pm

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  @tendress
  Allow me to be blunt. CSS is theme specific at wordpress.COM. When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing. Read this for more info:

  http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/

  there is no official Staff support for the CSS upgrade, and precious little Volunteer support is avaialble. The CSS upgrade is not recommended to those who do not already have a moderate understanding of HTML and CSS and how they work together. Only 2 Volunteers here choose to help members with CSS at all and they are currently unavalaible. I suggest that you do follow the instructions in the support documentation and exercise patience while waiting for one of the two to log in and help you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-css/#css-help

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  tendress · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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  thank you timethief

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  timethief · Member · Jan 14, 2011 at 11:13 pm

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  You are welcome. hallluke is at work and thesacredpath is very sick but still struggling to help.

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  hallluke · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 2:48 am

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  #access {background:#111133;}
  #access a {font-weight:bold;}
  #access .menu ul {float:left; position:relative; left:50%;}
  #access .menu ul li {position:relative; right:50%;}
  #access .menu ul ul {position:absolute; left:0;}
  #access .menu ul ul li {left:0;}

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  hallluke · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 2:51 am

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  A little bit worried that TT is somehow tracking my whereabouts, my phone isn’t clever enough to do GPS, have I been bugged! *wink*