Changing title and description in header w/o child theme

stephenwiggs
April 7, 2011 at 3:03 am #804
Is there a way to add custom css to change the color of the title and description in the header? I have tried changing everything I can think of, including changing the values for
```
.header_title

.header_desc
```
neither of which show up in the Graphene css file.

I have also tried modifying
```
#header h1, h2

#header a, a:hover

h1 a, h1 a:hover
```
all with no luck.

I know this is possible with other themes, so I don’t think that this is a WP issue. But is it possible to changing these values without creating a child theme? Graphene suits all my needs perfectly, so all I really need to do is to change some of the CSS in the “Custom CSS” option. To create a child theme to change the color of two items seems like overkill.

And yes, I realize that I could add the title and description to the image file in PS, but I may change the title and description sometime soon (and I tend to rotate my description, anyway), so again, that seems to be overkill.

If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

-Ken
Kim
April 7, 2011 at 2:53 pm #13626
Just change color code:
```
element.style {

color: #000000;

}
```
Child Theme always the wise thing 🙂

Kim
deborah
April 7, 2011 at 2:58 pm #13627
To change the color I just put the hex number for the color in the header section of the theme in the Dashboard.

I don’t know if it will help or not, but I moved the text in the header using:
```
#header h1 {

font: bold 28px "Trebuchet MS";

position: relative;

left: 38px;

top: 80px;

width: 852px;

}
```
I shortened the image and needed to raise the text. I changed the top: to 35px. I used a child theme, but you should be able to edit the main style.css file if you want to.
Mod
Kenneth John Odle
April 8, 2011 at 2:38 am #13628
I tried
```
#header h1 {

color:#ddeeff;

}
```
in custom CSS but it didn’t change anything. Odd. I really don’t want to use a child theme to change one little thing. Bit of a bummer, really because
```
#header h1 {

background:#ddeeff;

}
```
does work. In fact, everything I do to #header h1,h2 in the custom CSS portion of Graphene options works, except for color. I’m stumped.
Mod

Kenneth John Odle
April 8, 2011 at 6:14 pm #13629

I figured it out!

Go to Appearance >> Header. Change color code in “text color” at bottom!

This theme is so great I knew it had to be in there somewhere! I’m a happy doofus now!

deborah
April 8, 2011 at 7:55 pm #13630

That is what I was talking about earlier. 🙂 Sorry you missed what I said.

I’m glad you are a happy doofus. 🙂