I am using a widget called Category Posts to display latest posts in a sidebar. The color of the Headline (Post Title) is displaying in a "grey" color which is not particularly clear against the blue background so I want to change it. I tried adding the following css to the inserts:-

div#cat-post-item .post-title {
	color: blue !important;
}

But it did not work.

Can you advise if it is possible to change the text color and if so the right css insert to use to enable this to work.

The site is http://www.juandolioliving.com You can see the entries on the left column under heading "Latest Posts"
Wordpress 3.4.1
Atahualpa 3.7.7

Thanks in advance

Adrian

where did you get the CSS selector

div#cat-post-item

from?

By looking at the following in chrome:-
<li class="cat-post-item">
<a class="post-title" href="http://www.juandolioliving.com/sports-writers-golf-cup-august-18-at-metro-links/2012/07/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to Sports Writers Golf Cup August 18 at Metro Links.">Sports Writers Golf Cup August 18 at Metro Links.</a>

Sorry I should have mentioned it's the "Sports Writers Golf Cup August 18 at Metro Links" text I want to change the color of.

Can you explain, in English, what 'div#cat-post-item' says, what it applys to?

I did try without the "div" to start with but that did not work either and misread the closing div above on the widget title. I would normally use Firefox to look these things up but for some reason when I refresh the page it never reappears so have tried using chrome but not fully use to it as yet!!

But what does that statement say in english?

Not sure I can explain in English but thought the "#cat-post-item" was the ID and the ".post-title" was the class as in this example:- #para1
{
text-align:center;
color:red;
}
but I guess I am barking up the wrong tree

You said you have

<li class="cat-post-item">

In this case 'cat-post-item' is a class not an ID and this is an li not a div

Ok....Got it now or at least this works lol!


#categoryposts-2 .post-title {
color: blue;
}

Thanks for the lesson; as you say so rightly better to teach than just provide an answer. I will now know where to look properly for the correct items for both the ID and Class. I think what confused me was fact that both cat-post-item and post-title were shown as "class" and I didn't look back far enough to spot the ID. Mind you it was 11.30pm so maybe I was just too tired to think clearly!!