Title: CSS styling
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# CSS styling

 *  Resolved [Murraysimon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murraysimon/)
 * (@murraysimon)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/)
 * Hi there, I want to know how to give some padding to this widget – as it is with
   all the other widgets ?
 * I noticed there was no entry in the css for the widget as there is with all the
   others – can you assist please I am lost with this – currently I have the text
   that I had written, which is sitting hard up against the bottom of the previous
   block (the slider at the top of the page in this case).
 * The only way I found to give the text space was by changing the header margins
   and of course that threw the margins out for everything.. any help you can give
   would be greatly appreciated.
 * [http://photomedia.com.au/mdent/](http://photomedia.com.au/mdent/)
 * Thanks in adavance
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202140)
 * CSS styling is outside of the scope of the plugin. You should customize your 
   CSS rules by modifyng or overriding the rules included in your theme’s style.
   css. Usually every widget instance can be targeted singularly using its own ID,
   or you may use classes to target all BSTW instances.
 *  Thread Starter [Murraysimon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/murraysimon/)
 * (@murraysimon)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202147)
 * Hi Marco – thanks for the response – however when you say it is outside the scope
   of the plugin I am not sure what you mean?
 * I just checked half a dozen plugins (via the theme’s .css file) and I have the
   ability to tweak the css settings pertaining to those plugins because when they
   installed they updated the theme’s .css file – and then all I have to do is change
   the settings to achieve what I want.. However yours does not do that.. and so
   I was wondering how I achieve this? It cannot be this hard to add some p adding
   to the plugin so it is not sitting hard up against the ‘block’ above – being 
   a bit of a newbie to css I am unsure how to progress – everything I have tried
   has failed..
 * If I can’t figure this out I will have to uninstall and look for a replacement
   which I would rather not do.. So if there is anything you can do to help it would
   be appreciated.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202148)
 * Hi Murraysimon,
    I think you’re a bit confused. I used hundreds of plugins and
   I never heard of a plugin that alters the theme’s css file. It would be against
   any logic and also against WP standards. Many plugins offer CSS styling, either
   including their own CSS file(s) or having some kind of customization options (
   without touching theme’s files). That’s because they introduce custom portions
   of html cose that needs to be formatted. Our plugin, on the contrary, is just
   a replacement for the native WP text widget, so it does not introduce any particular
   markup, and it’s theme responsibility to customize markup and CSS. Please read
   out [FAQ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-studio-tinymce-widget/faq/) about
   how to customize widget appearance for further info.
 * The simplest way to customize CSS styling is to open your theme’s style.css file
   and add your own CSS rules. Please note that this way, you will lose your modifications
   if you update the theme. Some themes do have an internal option for custom CSS
   code that you may use for that. Alternatively you may create a custom plugin 
   and include your own custom css, with rules that override the ones coming with
   the theme.
 *  [aubrey114](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aubrey114/)
 * (@aubrey114)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202193)
 * I want to display html code like
 *     ```
       <html>
       <div>
       <h3>
       ```
   
 * but it just doesn’t want to work like it does here.
 *  Plugin Author [Marco Chiesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcochiesi/)
 * (@marcochiesi)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202227)
 * [@aubrey114](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aubrey114/) to show formatted
   code i’d suggest a plugin like [Crayon Syntax Highlighter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/crayon-syntax-highlighter/)
 *  [aubrey114](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aubrey114/)
 * (@aubrey114)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-styling-18/#post-6202228)
 * Thanks Marco,
    I found that plugin and it works great. I post alot of css code
   snippets and some html code and this plugin does exactly what I need it to do.
   It is very easy to use and allows readers to copy and paste the code right into
   their files. Again thanks for following up. Aubrey

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