Title: Setting up CSS selectors
Last modified: November 12, 2025
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# Setting up CSS selectors
* Resolved [espointpolish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/espointpolish/)
* (@espointpolish)
* [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-css-selectors/)
* Hi there, I just made the modal work using CSS selectors but it took me a while
to figure out, because I wasn’t sure what to put in the link field for my paragraph
block. It worked when I put a hashtag in there. I was following the instructions
here: [https://light-modal-block.cloudcatch.io/](https://light-modal-block.cloudcatch.io/).
I just wanted to let you know since it was not obvious to me. Thank you!
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* Plugin Author [David Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkjensen/)
* (@dkjensen)
* [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-css-selectors/#post-18718537)
* [@espointpolish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/espointpolish/) Did you
by chance put set the HTML anchor instead of adding a class? It would indicate
so as anchors are HTML IDs which require a prefix of `#` instead of `.` (period)
* I will adjust the docs so they are more clear though as I agree there is definitely
room for improvement. Thanks for the feedback!
* Plugin Author [David Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkjensen/)
* (@dkjensen)
* [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-css-selectors/#post-18718545)
* [@espointpolish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/espointpolish/) I just updated
the documentation on this, let me know if it’s a bit more clear now:
* [https://light-modal-block.cloudcatch.io/](https://light-modal-block.cloudcatch.io/)
* Thread Starter [espointpolish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/espointpolish/)
* (@espointpolish)
* [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-css-selectors/#post-18718578)
* I’m not sure – I added a class called “form” and put “.form a” in the modal selector,
but it didn’t work until I added a # to the link.
* I was thinking it might be helpful to add something like “the link in your paragraph
block should be set to ‘#’,” in the instructions – if that is correct.
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* Plugin Author [David Jensen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkjensen/)
* (@dkjensen)
* [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-up-css-selectors/#post-18725159)
* Did you somehow create an anchor without a link? By default WordPress should
force you to put something in there, whether it’s a # or an actual link.
* Either way testing on my end if I wrapped text in an empty anchor like `test
` the modals trigger.
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