Title: Customize Section Formatting?
Last modified: January 15, 2018

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# Customize Section Formatting?

 *  [kentinada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kentinada/)
 * (@kentinada)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-section-formatting/)
 * In the Twenty Seventeen theme, can I customize how the various sections are displayed
   from the home page? Not sure if this is the right forum or not. Thanks for any
   help.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-section-formatting/#post-9863894)
 * Each panel area on the home page (if you’re using the sectional home page option)
   has an id, #panel1, #panel2, etc. So you can use CSS that targets that selector
 * For example, to make the 2nd panel have a light blue background,
 *     ```
       article#panel2 {
           background: lightblue;
       }
       ```
   
 * **To add CSS:** use the “Additional CSS” option in the customizer. _[https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#Custom\_CSS\_in\_WordPress](https://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#Custom_CSS_in_WordPress)_
 * Learn to use the [Chrome Developer Tools](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/)
   to help you see and test changes to your CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [kentinada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kentinada/)
 * (@kentinada)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-section-formatting/#post-9863951)
 * Steve, thanks. Being rather new at this, how would I know what ids exist that
   I can customize through CSS if you hadn’t told me? Is it all documented somewhere?
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-section-formatting/#post-9864031)
 * Look at the page sourced. It may be documented, but I always start by looking
   at the page’s source and using the browser’s inspector.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-section-formatting/#post-9864031)
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