Title: Using span style in shortcode Last modified: July 18, 2017 --- # Using span style in shortcode * Resolved [Richard Slade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raslade/) * (@raslade) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/) * Hi Guido * I’m looking at styling some of the headings so that they appear in a different colour depending on which category is selected. I’ve tried adding a span style in the shortcode but no luck. Do you know a way to implement or is it not impossible? * Thanks Richard Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Plugin Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/) * (@guido07111975) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9330947) * Hi Richard, * In next update I will wrap variables date, time and location in span tags, so you can apply custom CSS to them, instead of to whole labels. Is that what you want? * Currently I’m trying to solve [another issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-pagination-on-homepage/), regarding pagination on homepage.. So when I have a fix, I will update plugin asap. * Guido * Plugin Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/) * (@guido07111975) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9330963) * Hi again, * But if you want to apply custom CSS depending on which event category page visitor is, I advice you to use the body class.. because an unique class is added to the body class. * ``` ``` * The “term” = your event category. * Guido * Thread Starter [Richard Slade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raslade/) * (@raslade) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9330977) * Hi Guido * Yes that could work, hopefully if it allows customisation between different categories on the same page. * With the body class option – is this before the shortcode brackets? * Thanks Richard * Thread Starter [Richard Slade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raslade/) * (@raslade) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9331065) * Ok i’ve got a simpler option. I’ve wrapped the shortcode with a div and targeted the right label with CSS. Sorted. * Thanks Richard * Plugin Author [Guido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/guido07111975/) * (@guido07111975) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9332103) * Hi Richard, * In this situation I prefer using the body to add custom CSS. * Let’s say you have a category (a slug) called “my-category” and you want to change the colour of the Time label… this should work: * ``` .term-my-category .vsel-meta-time {color:#cc0000;} ``` * After my theme-update you can also add custom CSS to the time variable itself: * ``` .term-my-category .vsel-meta-time span {color:#cc0000;} ``` * Guido * Thread Starter [Richard Slade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raslade/) * (@raslade) * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9332142) * Thanks Guido * Yes this is what I’ve ended up doing for now but a span option would be very useful. * Thanks Richard Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Using span style in shortcode’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/very-simple-event-list/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1415754) * [VS Event List](https://wordpress.org/plugins/very-simple-event-list/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/very-simple-event-list/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/very-simple-event-list/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/very-simple-event-list/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/very-simple-event-list/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/very-simple-event-list/reviews/) ## Tags * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/) * [labels](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/labels/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Richard Slade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raslade/) * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-span-style-in-shortcode/#post-9332142) * Status: resolved