Retro-Fitted: bottom border of header container

margaretrosestringer · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 9:48 pm
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```
#header {
    border-bottom-color: #6F3B2D;
}
#header {
    border-bottom-color: #8DA575;
}
```
The top one has a tick in the little box and the second one doesn’t – this is when I’m using that ‘Inspect Element Q’ thing (I can’t use the Firefox one any more because I can’t see what I need to and I can’t change the UI) – and that isn’t what I have in the CSS.
There I have #8DA575, NOT #653B2D; I did have that once, but I replaced it with the #8DA575. No dice.
I suspect my CSS is now looking like a dog’s breakfast after he’s eaten it; and I would dearly like to have the knowledge to tidy it up – as well, that is, as solving this BLOODY STUPID problem …

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creativembers · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 10:22 pm
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Hi Margaret,

First thing to check out, I think you have some missing semi-colons throughout your custom CSS so definitely check for that, especially on the lines you are having trouble with.

Secondly this border issue looks like it’s a matter of order, in CSS whichever rule comes last will “win” in importance. I looked at your customs CSS and it looks like you’ve declared
```
#header{
	border-bottom-color:#8DA575
}
```
near the top of your custom styles, but I also see :
```
#header{
	border-bottom-color:#6F3B2D
}
```
You should take out that second declaration if you want border color to show as #8DA575.

I know this can be frustrating, I use CSS every day and still end up making these errors sometimes!
margaretrosestringer · Member · Feb 25, 2014 at 12:00 am
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Quel idiot!!!!
I didn’t see it! – because, of course, I wasn’t expecting it to be there.
How/why I put the second one in is entirely beyond me. Beats me entirely.
Sighh …
Many thanks – so easy and so bloody MINDLESS!
thesacredpath · Member · Feb 25, 2014 at 3:22 am
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@creativembers, don’t we all. :)
margaretrosestringer · Member · Feb 25, 2014 at 3:23 am
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And where were YOU?!
[grin]

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