graham333

Sorry for the late reply on this thread.

On reflection I think I probably asked the wrong question, so let me try again from a different angle.

Okay I have some code in place that will allow me to use HTML in the Category descriptions, that works fine.

But it seems no matter what I try, the 2012 theme CSS is overriding everything I put in the .archive-meta selectors except for background/text colour and font size across all the content including h tags.

So what I’m asking now is, how can I style the <h> and <a href> tags in the Cat descriptions separately and apply that css to the archive-meta selector(s)

Alternatively

Can I force the default Page/Post global Css styles as they are (and appear on the pages) into the description instead, thus making the Category description display like a normal Post/Page

According to Firebug, these are the selectors:
.archive-header,
.page-header
.archive-meta

In my Css file I have…

header.archive-header  { background: #E8E8E8; }

.archive-meta {
	color: #000000;
	font-size: 16px;
	font-size: 0.857142857rem;
	line-height: 2;
	margin-top: 22px;
	margin-top: 1.571428571rem;

Changes made to this code are reflected in the Cat description, but adding tag styles does not seem to work, unless I am doing it wrong which would be no great surprise 🙂

Hi again,

okay sorry I’m not clear, I’m sure you already know how the Category description is formatted by default, i.e. it isn’t.

All I really want, is for the descriptions to have exactly the same styles as a normal Post/Page, i.e. h-tags, paragraphs, text styles, un-ordered lists etc, that’s all, nothing fancy.

Thanks Michael,

That’s exactly what I needed, it works perfectly 🙂

Marking as resolved.

Haha, Doh! Well you learn something new every day, I never thought of looking in the UI as it never occured to me it would be in there I set it and forgot it! 🙂

Thanks so much Steve

Thanks for providing that option too.

Marking as resolved – thanks again Michael

Wilco 🙂

That is not really the solution though is it, I need that to happen for category.php child