Title: Changing Additional CSS class(es) descriptive text
Last modified: March 29, 2022

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# Changing Additional CSS class(es) descriptive text

 *  [candell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/candell/)
 * (@candell)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/)
 * Each block under ‘Advanced’ has a ‘Changing Additional CSS class(es)’ section.
   This section has some text ‘Separate multiple classes with spaces.’
 * Is it possible to change this text? I have created several classes for page editors
   to use, but no doubt they will forget them as the field here is just a text input
   field.
 * Ideally we could change this text input to a dropdown featuring the classes I
   have created but that doesn’t seem possible, so I wondered whether I could change
   this text to provide some info on the possible classes they can use here?
 * Thanks
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).

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 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/#post-15507219)
 * It will add a class to your block’s output. You just have to separate the classes
   with a space. You might have to check the output of the block where the class
   is being placed. For Example, If you add an image, the image is wrapped in a 
   figure element and the class is placed on that element and not on the img element.
   After you add it go to the front end and check the HTML created using the inspector.
   Make sure it placing it where you think it is.
 *  Thread Starter [candell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/candell/)
 * (@candell)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/#post-15509404)
 * Thanks for the reply, I think you misunderstood however. The classes are all 
   set up in the theme, but despite naming them logically i.e. border-bottom-blue,
   no-bottom-margin etc, the page editors will forget the classes available to them.
 * What I wondered if I could do was change the descriptive text beneath the css
   field that is currently ‘Separate multiple classes with spaces.’ with something
   more like
 * You have the following classes available for use;
    border-bottom-blue – adds 
   a blue border to the bottom of the item no-bottom-margin – removes the bottom
   margin, to place items below it closer
 *  [mrtom414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtom414/)
 * (@mrtom414)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/#post-15509512)
 * If you change the name of the class you have to add new stylings. The Editor 
   doesn’t know what your new classes are for. You can add and change anything you
   want but you need to add the CSS rules for them. If you want to style the block
   you can add a theme.json file and configure the styles and colors of the block.
   If you delete a class you are in effect destroying any styling added by that 
   class. The rules will remain in place but they will not be used. You can add 
   and change any class in that field but you not the editor is responsible for 
   setting the rules for that class.
 *  Thread Starter [candell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/candell/)
 * (@candell)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/#post-15510114)
 * The theme is all set up and working correctly to the styles, that’s not what 
   I am asking.
 * Is it possible to change the text circled in this image?
 * [https://ibb.co/PFy0jKB](https://ibb.co/PFy0jKB)
 * To something like
 * [https://ibb.co/LRQyQvy](https://ibb.co/LRQyQvy)

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-additional-css-classes-descriptive-text/#post-15510114)
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