# Cannot change color of buttons

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 6, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545 "2020-05-06T01:07:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Erik\_Manger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erik_manger/32/179399_2.png) [@Erik\_Manger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Erik_Manger)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545/1 "2020-05-06T01:07:27Z")

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Hi everyone, I cannot seem to be able to update the colors of my buttons. I changed the color settings in the admin, but the buttons are not updating accordingly like they are on a similar instance of Discourse being hosted through Discourse themselves.

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545/2 "2020-05-06T01:15:54Z")

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Two quick things to check first:

1. After editing and saving a color, are the changes still there if you refresh the page, or do they revert back to their original values?

2. Is the correct color palette selected from within the theme (/admin/customize/themes)?

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### Author: ![Erik\_Manger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erik_manger/32/179399_2.png) [@Erik\_Manger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Erik_Manger)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545/3 "2020-05-06T01:18:31Z")

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Thanks for this. I didn’t realize I had to assign the color pallet to the style. Was this a recent change?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545/4 "2020-05-06T01:51:20Z")

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> [@Erik\_Manger](#):
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> I didn’t realize I had to assign the color pallet to the style. Was this a recent change?

Yes, I don’t recall when it changed (over a year ago I think)… but the default theme, “Light,” would come with a preassigned color palette named “Light” so you didn’t specifically have to assign the colors.

Now “Light” is no longer an editable color palette, and is instead treated more like a preloaded default.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-change-color-of-buttons/150545/5 "2024-07-04T13:39:17Z")

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