anyone know how to alter the style of a post comment button?

laurapalmerwp · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 11:13 am
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This isn’t for my site its for:
https://mygoodmeasure.wordpress.com/fitted-furniture-sector-kent-london-news/

I’ve styled up the Leave a comment button but not the post comment button. I’ve tried viewing the button with the inspect element tool and found the code. But whatever I do with that code, that button doesn’t alter!!

Any ideas?!

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thesacredpath · Member · Apr 25, 2015 at 5:20 pm
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Hi there, try using the following CSS selector and add the styling declarations you desire.
#respond .form-submit input, #respond .form-submit input#comment-submit, #respond .comment-form-fields input[type="submit"], #respond p.form-submit input[type="submit"], #respond input[type="submit"], #commentform #submit
Yes, it is a long one. You may have to use the !important keyword after the some of the declaration values to force them to override the existing styling, such as this:
background: #cc0000 !important;
laurapalmerwp · Member · Apr 26, 2015 at 2:59 pm
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Hello thesacredpath, think our ‘paths’ might have crossed before!

Thanks for the tip re: !important; – I’ve made some progress because of using that. However, the css selector has got some of those in place too and that’s overiding my code! For example, the background image and border. Is there anything else I can do?
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 28, 2015 at 6:50 pm
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Hmmm, if they have set !important in the original CSS for the comments section, and you can’t get it to override with Custom CSS, that means the CSS for that button is loading after the custom CSS and there wouldn’t be much we could do about it.

Your post comment button though looks very close to what you have for the leave comment button with the exception of the background color. You need to use “background” instead of “background-color” since you have to override the background image for the button as well. Use this:
background: #11121d !important;
laurapalmerwp · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 1:58 pm
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Ok thanks. Have now got it sort of like my leave a comment button! I have tried changing background-color to just background for the hover state too – but no luck.

If anything, it would be nice if the font matched my other buttons. Tinos. Are you saying I won’t be able to do that or anything else then?
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 5:19 pm
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You can change the hover color with the following.
```
#respond .form-submit input#comment-submit:hover {
    background: #cc0000 !important;
}
```
As far as the font, I can’t get that to change.
laurapalmerwp · Member · Apr 30, 2015 at 6:58 am
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Well thats tons better than it was. Thanks!
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 30, 2015 at 9:35 pm
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Super, and you are welcome.

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