Text widget heading

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  llamapyjamas · Member · Aug 3, 2007 at 3:55 am

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  I’ve used the <h2></h2> tag to create my text headings, but the titles don’t position themselves within the green box like those of the premade widgets (like the calendar, archives, etc). I’m a CSS-n00b, so cut and paste code instructions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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  katm · Member · Aug 3, 2007 at 5:44 am

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  Are you hosted here at wp.com or are you self hosted using the software from wp.org?

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  llamapyjamas · Member · Aug 6, 2007 at 4:49 am

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  I’m hosted at wp.com, and I know I can’t into the CSS code. I was hoping there’d be something I could use when I edit the text widget from the widgets page.

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 6, 2007 at 5:39 am

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  Nope, nada. As far as I know for changing the way widget titles are displayed you can change the template you use or buy the CSS upgrade, that’s it.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Aug 6, 2007 at 1:13 pm

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  You can put in any title you want, though.

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  llamapyjamas · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 5:42 am

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  Well that’s annoying. It’s not a glaring issue, but enough to be annoying.

  Thanks for the help!

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  kimik0 · Member · Aug 7, 2007 at 8:13 am

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  I see you’re using a < br > and two & nbsp ; s to make the text widgets appear the same as the others. Have you looked at the source HTML though? The other widgets only use an < em > < /em > pair. Try that and it’ll display the way you want.

  Quote from the CSS of the Blix theme you use:

  #subcontent h2 em {
  display:block;
  padding:5px 10px;
  font-style:normal;
  }

  See?

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  llamapyjamas · Member · Aug 8, 2007 at 2:53 am

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  Thanks so much! The length of the green boxes still aren’t quite right, but at least my text is now centered properly, which is good enough for me.

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  kimik0 · Member · Aug 8, 2007 at 9:53 am

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  Hmm, strange.. It looks like a bug in the theme. Unlike other widgets, text widgets are placed inside an extra < div >, for no apparent reason. I’m not sure if you should report it to WordPress.com support or the theme author directly.