Title: Color code specific category's article Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Color code specific category's article * [joerpnet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joerpnet/) * (@joerpnet) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-code-specific-categorys-article/) * Hi, * I want to highlight articles of a specific category and its subcategories. How can i change the background color of the articles in the blog list? * thanks, Joe. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-code-specific-categorys-article/#post-2232520) * If your theme makes use of the body class and post classes, and most do, you can use css * First, do a view source of your site to look at your source code to make sure its good * You just click view in your browser and go to source/source code… * look for something like: * ``` ``` * And * ```
``` * That’s off my index page for a certain post…. you can see all sorts of options in there, * The body class lets you target the proper page, and the article (or it might be post) class lets you target posts based on certain criteria * So I pick home from the body class and category-filters from the article class * And I can target and posts on the blog listing in the filters category * So in style.css if I put: * ``` .home .category-filters { color: #fff; background: #401f1f; } ``` Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Color code specific category's article’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/) * [custom color](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-color/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/color-code-specific-categorys-article/#post-2232520) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics