Title: Editing basic CSS in a theme
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Editing basic CSS in a theme

 *  [lbutler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbutler/)
 * (@lbutler)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-basic-css-in-a-theme/)
 * I have a theme that I mostly like, except that it doesn’t put any space in between
   the paragraphs of the posts.
 * I went to Appearance => Edit CSS and added:
 * p { margin: 1em 0 1em 0; }
 * But nothing has changed.

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 *  Thread Starter [lbutler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lbutler/)
 * (@lbutler)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-basic-css-in-a-theme/#post-6398376)
 * OK, let’s get more specific.
 * I switched to the 2015 theme, dark. The color options in the theme settings only
   apply to the sidebar, and I cannot change the colors of the posts (grey on dark
   grey).
 * Let’s say I want to change the color to white (crazy talk, I know) and the the
   backgrond to black.
 * I installed “WP Add Custom CSS” and tried:
 * p { color: white; }
 * Not much happened. I am able to change the body text with
 * p { color: white; background: black; !important }
 * I am still lft with weird grey bars all over the page.
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