Title: wee header style problem! help!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wee header style problem! help!

 *  Resolved [dominoeffect](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominoeffect/)
 * (@dominoeffect)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wee-header-style-problem-help/)
 * Hi all,
 * Just wondering if anyone can assume why this code wouldn’t produce links which
   are 777888 in color?!
 * `<h5 style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif; a color: #777888;
   text-decoration:none; border-bottom:1px;"><?php the_category(' & ') ?></h5>`
 * Appreciate any help,
 * Best

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 *  [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
 * (@drewactual)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wee-header-style-problem-help/#post-791229)
 * links do wonders….
 * but it appears to me off the bat, that you are placing in a h5 a call to a WP
   function which by itself will place the item in a field already controlled by
   a style (via external css)…
 * in other words you will get your item displayed, but it will be displayed in 
   an h5 parent container and contained in another element.. just my thoughts without
   a link.. there is no reason I can come up with that the category would appear
   not #777888 otherwise.
 *  Thread Starter [dominoeffect](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominoeffect/)
 * (@dominoeffect)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wee-header-style-problem-help/#post-791256)
 * Do you mean because the h5 style is already define in the stylesheet it may simply
   overwrite the <h5 style=…> definitions? I suspected that could be happening.
 * Anyway I managed to sort it in another way, it isn’t relevant and would just 
   be confusing to read about, so I’ll keep it to myself!
 * Thank you for the help Drewactual!
 *  [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
 * (@drewactual)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wee-header-style-problem-help/#post-791281)
 * well, I often refer to css as akin to a private in the Army- it will do **EXACTLY**
   what you **LAST **told it to do.. sorta like this:
 * margin-top:5px;
    margin:0px;
 * will give you a margin of 0px all around your element. But:
 * margin: 0px;
    margin-top:5px;
 * will give you what you are looking for, 0px around everything except the top,
   which will be 5px. This causes lots of folks issues.
 * As far as yours, you would be defining the style in the call, on your theme- 
   but your theme is going to use an external stylesheet to control the layout..
   which comes last? The stylesheet rules or the call rules? debatable I would reckon…
   But I think the HTML or PHP call trumps the external stylesheet… but if you are
   calling something via WP function, that function may have embedded a tag which
   WILL look for external styles defined- so it would look like this:
 * `<h5 style="color:#ccc;"><h5> your text which external css got a hold of </h5
   ></h5>`
 * I don’t know if that is the case, I am just speculating it _could _be the cause…
   It is something I think I will play with to learn more about..

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