Title: Widget Modifications
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget Modifications

 *  Resolved [paulw1956](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulw1956/)
 * (@paulw1956)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-modifications/)
 * How can I modify the appearance of a widget?
 * For example make changes to the font, text size, line spacing, bullet point type,
   background etc.
 * My blog address is [http://www.diary4life.com](http://www.diary4life.com)
 * Regards
 * Paul

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-modifications/#post-1259095)
 * Hi
 * The short answer is you modify the CSS being used to display the contents of 
   that widget.
 * Exceptions are, if the widget is pulling in a page from another site using AJAX
   or iframe, you can’t. If the content resides on your site, you can change it.
 * If you don’t know CSS, you are better off asking specific questions –
    on this
   section of sidebar, how do I make the font Verdana, the font-size smaller, the
   line spacing this, etc. That way you can get specific answers and you can extrapolate
   from there to other parts of your sidebar.
 * A key tool for seeing the CSS being applied to your pages is the Firefox Firebug
   extension. If you want to change your CSS layout it saves a lot of time.
 *  Thread Starter [paulw1956](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulw1956/)
 * (@paulw1956)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-modifications/#post-1259242)
 * Stvwlf,
 * Many thanks for your answer. I’ve tried a few different themes and achieve the
   results I’m looking for.
 * Regards
 * Paul

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 * Last reply from: [paulw1956](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulw1956/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-modifications/#post-1259242)
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