Sidebar questions: possible to remove theme-loaded images?

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  wildrose965 · Member · May 2, 2012 at 3:17 pm

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  I’m using the Comet theme on http://cherrytart.wordpress.com. I’m pleased with it overall, but would like to make a few changes to the sidebar. Are these possible?

  1. Get rid of the theme-loaded sidebar image. (I want to have a white background.)
  2. Add a line between the sidebar and posts to differentiate. Would prefer one solid line
  3. Change bullet style in sidebar to a disc.

  Thanks for your help in advance!

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  designsimply · Member · May 7, 2012 at 11:57 pm

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  1. Get rid of the theme-loaded sidebar image. (I want to have a white background.)

  I see that you were able to remove the background color for the sidebar in the Comet theme with this CSS:

  .widget {
  	margin:0;
  	padding:20px 10px;
  	background:transparent;
  	border-bottom:2px solid #eaeaea;
  	font-size:.9em;
  }

  Nice work!

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  designsimply · Member · May 7, 2012 at 11:59 pm

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  2. Add a line between the sidebar and posts to differentiate. Would prefer one solid line

  I found that you added this to make a border to the left of the sidebar show up:

  .widgets {
  	border-left:2px solid #eaeaea;
  }

  Or if you’d like to move the line a little to the left and make the color and thickness match the lines above the content and sidebar, you could try something like this:

  #c3 {
  	overflow: visible;
  }
  .widgets {
  	margin-left: -6px;
  	border-left: solid 4px #D2D2D2;
  }

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  designsimply · Member · May 8, 2012 at 12:05 am

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  3. Change bullet style in sidebar to a disc.

  Looks like you’ve got this one covered too. I found this CSS which changed the bullets in the sidebar to a disc:

  .widget ul,.widget ol {
  	list-style:disc;
  	margin:0 10px 0 15px;
  }

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  wildrose965 · Member · May 8, 2012 at 12:42 am

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  Brilliant, design simply. Thank you so much for your reply.

  I did get some of it done, though it took me forever to figure out. *not a code genius*

  I like your sidebar border idea. Will tinker when I have time.

  Appreciate it!

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  wildrose965 · Member · May 8, 2012 at 3:43 am

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  @designsimply, I tried your approach, but my eye preferred what I already had. Thank you, though. The principle might come in handy another time.

  Best,

  Jan