Can you change the color of customizable text?

[bloomexperiment (Tracey)]

@BugsyB

I want to color 1 word that’s in custom text.

@BugsyB

I want “Unread” to be red. If I have to add it to the CSS in the default theme, I’ll try. But again, I’d rather do it form the customized text section.

Yep so adding CSS is what you have to do if you want to change the color and style of words. The Customised Text section is just for changing the content of the text itself, not its style.

Instead of adding CSS directly to the default theme though, Discourse has theme components which allows you to add CSS on top of an existing theme.

Just to be clear about expectations, Meta is not a dedicated support site for a complete guide to getting started with CSS (just like it is not a dedicated support site for learning Ruby and JavaScript completely from scratch, if you wanted to start customising the behaviour of Discourse through plugins). If you want to customise the appearance of Discourse, you will need to learn more about CSS.

Policy notice: no basic HTML / CSS questions please

We do enjoy helping people with their free, open source Discourse instances, and that is indeed part of our responsibility to the open source community. However: Over time, there has been a constant influx of basic HTML and CSS questions that are taking time away from us helping with more substantive issues specific to Discourse. It’s not a productive use of our time to teach basic HTML and CSS. There are thousands of online resources that describe how to make changes on an HTML pa…

So there are guides on making theme components and plugins for Discourse here, but not for learning CSS or Ruby from scratch (since that’s a general skill). Sometimes people have time to kindly help, but it’s not always going to be possible, because it means having to go through general HTML & CSS knowledge – the basics of the Inspector and classes and properties etc.

Here is an intro guide to making CSS changes on your site:

Make CSS changes on Your Site

Want to make some CSS changes on your Discourse site but not sure where to start? You’ve come to the right place! You only need to read this topic if you’re very new to CSS. If you already know how to write and add CSS to your Discourse site, then you will most likely not need to read this topic. We’ll cover a few subjects. We’ll start with a brief introduction of what CSS is and some terms that you need to know. We will then move on to how you can add CSS to your Discourse site. Final…