Title: Widget title styling
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget title styling

 *  Resolved [zeaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeaks/)
 * (@zeaks)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/)
 * I’m trying to add a background color to my widget titles, but just around the
   text not the entire width of the title area. I have this in my css which almost
   does it, but because of the float: left it brings the widget content area up 
   beside the title.
 *     ```
       .widget-title {
        background: #495965;
        color: white;
        float: left;
        font-size: 150%;
        margin-top: 0;
        padding: 0px 10px 0 8px;
        position: relative;
        left: -8px;
        margin-bottom: 0.4em;
       }
       ```
   
 * I can’t post a link to the site because it’s hosted locally, best I can do is
   post an image. [http://img834.imageshack.us/f/widgettitles.jpg/](http://img834.imageshack.us/f/widgettitles.jpg/)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/#post-1673885)
 * A screenshot is of no use. What might help is a link to a live page demonstrating
   the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [zeaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeaks/)
 * (@zeaks)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/#post-1673927)
 * I set up a test site for it.
    [http://test.zeaks.org/](http://test.zeaks.org/)
   Thanks
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/#post-1673933)
 * Try adding the background color on `.widget-title .cufon`
 *  Thread Starter [zeaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeaks/)
 * (@zeaks)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/#post-1673940)
 * Thank you, it worked

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 * [border](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/border/)
 * [title](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [zeaks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeaks/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-title-styling/#post-1673940)
 * Status: resolved

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