Title: css selector for posts? Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # css selector for posts? * [tinmanjim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinmanjim/) * (@tinmanjim) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/) * I have my main blog page styled the way I want it (for the most part), but when I click on a post title or a comment link, the result is that the style no longer applies to the post. I can style the comments and durn near everything else on the page, but the posts are numbered (i.e. – class=post-23…id=post-23). Is there a css selector that will target these numbered posts? It seems impractical to make a separate selector for each post. What am I missing? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/#post-2627306) * please post a link to your site to illustrate the problem. * possibly add another general class to the post div in the template … * Thread Starter [tinmanjim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinmanjim/) * (@tinmanjim) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/#post-2627344) * The site is [here](http://mullinsite.com/heyjude/). WordPress 3.3.1, Adventure Journal 1.7.2. The issue is that I’m hoping WordPress has a css selector that can target any post, regardless of number; i.e. – div id=’post-42…class=’post- 42′. If not, I can edit the template, but am I wrong in assuming that an upgrade will wipe out the edits? If I can do the job using only my ancillary css stylesheet, i’d rather. As you can see, the landing page posts are styled with a background image, but clicking on ‘Comments’ or the post title takes you to a post page where the styling is lost, I believe because of the use of the dashed (post-42) selector. The funny thing is that on the landing page all the posts are numbered the same way; the only difference I can see is that on the landing page there is a comment before each post: “post-##”. Is that something I could use? If so, I don’t know how… * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/#post-2627345) * the post div seems to use `post_class()` which gives you a number of css clssses; * output example from your link: * `
` * the same from the single post: `
` * the css classes `.post` and/or `.hentry` are output for each of the posts and are quite generic and could be used for styling. * (ps: I have not looked into details why the formatting is off in single posts– this is not really scope of a WordPress forum) * Thread Starter [tinmanjim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinmanjim/) * (@tinmanjim) * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/#post-2627346) * (Palm slaps forehead!) That’s way too simple; I was hoping for something complicated enough that I could justify spending the next few weeks pounding my forehead on my desk… * Thanks! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘css selector for posts?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/) * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/) * [selector](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/selector/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [tinmanjim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tinmanjim/) * Last activity: [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-selector-for-posts/#post-2627346) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics