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Custom Styles to Gadgets (Blogger)

Sometimes you just want a certain  gadget to stand out among the rest. Rather its the font or colors you wish to change or the Alignment or Position of the gadget. You can change it by following the instructions below.


  1. Go to the Page Elements
  2. Click the Edit option on the Gadget you wish to style and Locate The GadgetID.
  3. Go to Design-->Template Designer--> Advanced-->Add CSS-->Input One Of the Codes Below.

Depending on what your trying to style you will need a different one of these codes.

Gadget:
#GadgetID {
Your styles CSS Styles
}
Gadget Headings:
#GadgetID h2 {
Your styles CSS Styles
}
Your headings might not be h2 but generally with most blog template this is the case.

Gadget Links:
#GadgetID a:link {
Your CSS Styles
}
#GadgetID a:visited {
Your CSS Styles
{
#GadgetID# a:hover {
Your CSS Styles
}
 Replace the Red text with the Unique Gadget ID.
 Replace the Blue text with the styles you wish to change.

The possibility's of the CSS styles  are endless. I will go over just a few below.

Font Color:
color: #000000;
Font Type:
font-family: YOUR FONT;
Background color:
background-color: #000000;
Background Image:
background-image:url('YOUR IMAGE');
Borders:
border-style: YOUR BORDER TYPE;
border-width: 1px;
Just change the Red text to your liking.
 

I cant go over everything but you can look through this blog for more help with these individual styles or you can look at this great site below.
W3Schools

14 comments:

CoffeeBlue said...

Thanks for the help!

Shahzad Saeed said...

How can I change the background color of the gadget?

AiresOFwar said...

Depends on what gadget your trying to change. With most gadget you can use this syntax below.

#Gadget# {
background-color: #000000;
}

මාත්‍රා said...

#LinkList1# {background-color: #000000;} this is not working for me pls help

AiresOFwar said...

It needs to look like this.

#LinkList1 {background-color: #000000;}

Jordan Bowman said...

#PageList1 {font-family: 'Miso';}
This isn't working for me either. Downloaded the font from Kernest: MISO Light

AiresOFwar said...

I am using Windows 7 with Firefox and Miso font works fine without downloading any packages. You need to make sure you installed the font package correctly for this to work with older Windows. A way to check this is to try using Miso font in Paint or Word Pad to see if the option is available. If you do not see this font package on one of them then its not installed properly.

Kalyani said...

Is there a way to change the bacground for all gadgets in a single code / CSS ?

AiresOFwar said...

Yes you can with one of these codes below.


For just sidebar gadgets use this code.

.sidebar .widget {

Or for all widgets use...

.widget {

This may not work on 3rd party templates.

Erika Shupe said...

Thanks for this post. Between this and the ones on the Blogger help pages I was able to get the desired look on my blog page using the border and pad code in the CSS section.

Social Lilac said...

I'm trying to change the background color for my side gadgets, that are presently the same color as the blog background, to white. But I have absolutely no clue how to do so. Please help?

AiresOFwar said...

Depending on what template your using the code to color the sidebar may change. I will need to see your template in order to give a accurate answer.

Lauren | Seventeenth and Irving said...

Hi - your posts have been so helpful to me - I added a dotted border around my entire blog with your help but I want to add a dotted line underneath each sidebar title. Any insight?

My blog is seventeenthandirving.blogspot.com and is using the simple template.

AiresOFwar said...

Seems like you figured it out.

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