Magazine Basic — how to customize pages list in sidebar?

I’ve isolated another clue on this — would welcome any ideas about what to try next!

The color of the page lists displayed in the Pages sidebar widget is 205B87.

So I did a search of that in the code and found it in two places in style.css — here:

a {
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
color: #205B87;
}

and here:

ol.commentlist li div.comment-meta a { color:#205B87; text-decoration:none; }

So I thought, okay. I’ll comment out the first one and set the color at black.

a {
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
// color: #205B87;//
color: 000000;
}

I reloaded the blog page — and in IE — there is no change.

But — in Firefox SOME of the page names listed in the sidebar are still displayed in that light blue #205B87 — and others are now displayed as PURPLE? #800080????

https://blog.harperhewes.com/

That’s not a color I set anywhere, and when I do a text search on the theme files it doesn’t show up.

The pages being displayed as purple are pages for which I have designated other pages as child pages.

What I want to do is control the look of the child pages in the list . . .

Also obviously I want to make it consistent in FF & IE. Any idea why IE would render this differently?

I’m going to keep sleuthing but if anyone has any ideas of where I could look, I’d be very appreciative!

Here’s my style.css code as it stands right now. Pretty much the default magazine basic file except some font settings and I put in some borders & a background.

(Could the background be doing something to a font color? LOL):

/* Basic Tag Elements */

a {
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
// color: #205B87; //
color: 000000;
}

a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

img {
border: 0;
}

body {
color: #444;
margin: auto;
font-size: 14px;
padding: 0 20px;
font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/*begin code to give patterned background */
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url(‘ https://blog.harperhewes.com/wp-content/pattern5.png’);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position:0 0;
color: #333;
}

h1 a, h2 a, h3 a, h4 a, h5 a {
color: #38335B;
text-transform: capitalize;
}

h1 {
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
}

textarea {
width: 97%;
}

/* Header Elements */

#header{
background: #fff;
border-top: 5px solid #38335b;
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

#search-header {
width: 180px;
}

#login {
height: 16px;
font-size: 12px;
color: #fff;
text-align: right;
padding: 7px 10px 9px;
background: url(images/login.png) repeat-x;
}

#login a {
color: #fff;
}

#login ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

#login ul li {
display: inline;
}

.dot:before {
content: url(images/whitedot.png) ” “;
}

#title {
font-size: 48px;
margin: 20px 0 0;
padding: 0 15px;
line-height: 34px;
}

#title a {
color: #222;
}

#title a:hover {
color: #cc0000;
text-decoration: none;
}

#description {
font-size: 16px;
margin: 10px 0 20px;
padding: 0 15px;
}

#navigation {
clear: left;
background: url(images/login.png) repeat-x;
float: left;
width: 100%;
height: 25px;
}

ul.menu * {
margin:0;
padding:0
}

ul.menu ul {position:absolute; top:25px; left:0; background:#d1d1d1; display:none; opacity:0; list-style:none;}
ul.menu ul li {position:relative; border:1px solid #aaa; width:159px; margin:0;}
ul.menu ul li a {display:block; padding:5px 7px 5px 12px; color: #555; background-color:#d1d1d1; border-right: 0; font-size: 12px;}
ul.menu ul li a:hover {background-color:#c5c5c5;}
ul.menu ul ul {left:159px; top:-1px;}

ul.menu {
list-style:none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

ul.menu li {
position:relative;
font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
list-style-type: none;
float: left;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 14px;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: relative;
}

ul.menu a {
display: block;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
border-right: 1px solid #fff;
padding: 3px 12px 4px 12px;
}

ul.menu a:hover {
color: #444;
background: #c5c5c5;
text-decoration: none;
}

ul.menu .menulink:hover, ul.menu .menuhover {
color: #444;
background-color:#c5c5c5;
}

#sub-navigation {
clear: both;
border-bottom: 1px solid #222;
float: left;
width: 100%;
padding-top: 2px;
}

#sub-navigation img {
float: left;
position: relative;
top: 3px;
}

#sub-navigation ul {
padding: 0 0 0 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#sub-navigation li {
list-style-type: none;
float: left;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 12px;
padding: 0;
margin: 4px 0 3px;
}

#sub-navigation ul.pages li:after {
content: url(images/blackdot.png);
}

#sub-navigation a {
color: #222;
padding: 4px 5px 3px 5px;
}

#sub-navigation a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

/* Main Elements */

#mainwrapper {
float: left;
width: 100%;
padding: 10px 0 10px 0;
margin: 0;
border-top: 5px solid #38335b;
border-bottom: 5px solid #38335b;
background: #fff;
}

#sidebar {
float: left;
margin: 0 10px;
padding: 5px 0 0;
}

#secondsidebar {
float: left;
margin: 0 10px;
padding: 5px 0 0;
}

.side {
line-height: 20px;
font-size: 18px;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.side-widget {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 10px;
padding: 0 10px 15px;
background: url(images/bg-hatch.gif);
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

.side-widget ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.side-widget ul li {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: 13px;
}

.side-widget ul li {
padding-left: 15px;
margin: 2px 0;
}

.side-widget h2 {
font-size: 14px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
padding: 10px 0 5px;
margin-top: 0;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
}

.side-widget .storycontent {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
}

.side-widget .noline {
border-bottom: 0;
}

.posts {
border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}

.posts h2 {
margin: 10px 0 0;
}

.readmore {
color: #cc0000;
}

#footer {
clear: both;
float: left;
width: 100%;
padding: 10px 0;
text-align: center;
font-size: 11px;
border-top: 1px solid #222;
border-bottom: 5px solid #38335b;
background: #fff;
}

/* Left Content Elements */

#leftcontent {
float: left;
margin: 0 10px;
padding: 0;
}

#leftcontent h5 {
font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #cc0000;
margin-bottom: 5px;
font-size: 14px;
}

#leftcontent h1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 24px;
line-height: 26px;
}

.more-link {
font-size: 11px;
text-align: right;
color: #cc0000;
}

.tags a {
color: #cc0000;
}

.meta {
font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #888;
}

.post {
float: left;
border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
margin-bottom: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
width: 100%;
}

#twocol {
float: left;
margin-bottom: 3px;
padding: 10px 0 0;
background: url(images/line.png) repeat-y 50% 0;
}

#twocol img {
width: 80px;
float: left;
margin: 0;
margin: 0 10px 5px 0;
}

#twocol h1 {
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 20px;
}

.mainhr {
float: left;
background: #aaa;
clear: both;
width: 100%;
height: 1px;
border: 0;
}

.twopost {
width: 46%;
float: left;
}

.twopost2 {
margin-left: 7.5%;
}

#threecol {
float: left;
background: url(images/line.png) repeat-y 31.5% 0;
margin-top: 3px;
}

#threecol2 {
float: left;
padding: 0;
background: url(images/line.png) repeat-y 67% 0;
}

#threecol img {
width: 40px;
float: left;
margin: 0 10px 5px 0;
}

.threepost {
width: 29%;
float: left;
border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
padding-top: 10px;
}

.threepost h2, .twopost h2 {
margin: 0;
font-size: 16px;
line-height: 18px;
}

.threepost2, .threepost5 {
padding: 10px 0 0;
margin: 0 6%;
}

.threepost1, .threepost2, .threepost3 {
border-top: 0;
}

.threepost1, .threepost4 {
clear: left;
}

/* Other Elements */

#leftcontent h1.catheader {
margin-top: 3px;
color: #cc0000;
font-weight: normal;
}

#leftcontent .post h1 {
color: #000;
margin-top: 3px;
}

.red, .entry a {
color: #cc0000;
}

#tagcloud {
width: 400px;
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
padding: 20px;
}

#tagcloud a {
color: #cc0000;
}

/* Comment Elements */

h3#comments {
text-transform: none;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}

#postcomments {
padding-top: 20px;
}

h4#comments, #respond h3 { color:#333; font:normal 240% georgia,times,serif; margin:0 0 .1em; padding:0 0 .1em; }

#respond p { font-size:11px; margin:0 0 1em; }

ol.commentlist { list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0; }

ol.commentlist li { border:1px solid #d5d5d5; border-radius:5px; -moz-border-radius:5px; -webkit-border-radius:5px; margin:0 0 10px; padding:5px 7px 5px 64px; position:relative; }

ol.commentlist li.pingback comment-author { padding:0 170px 0 0; }

ol.commentlist li div.vcard { font-weight:bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; }

ol.commentlist li div.vcard cite.fn { font-style:normal; font-size: 11px; }

ol.commentlist li div.vcard cite.fn a.url, .cancel-comment-reply a { color:#cc0000; text-decoration:none; }

ol.commentlist li div.vcard cite.fn a.url:hover, .cancel-comment-reply a:hover { color:#000; }

ol.commentlist li div.vcard img.avatar { background: #fff; border:1px solid #aaa; padding: 5px; left:7px; position:absolute; top:7px; }

ol.commentlist li div.comment-meta { font-weight:bold; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; position:absolute; right:10px; text-align:right; top:5px; }

ol.commentlist li div.comment-meta a { color:#205B87; text-decoration:none; }

ol.commentlist li p { font-weight:normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; margin:5px 0 12px; }

ol.commentlist li ul { font-weight:normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; list-style:square; margin:0 0 12px; padding:0; }

ol.commentlist li div.reply { background:#999; border:1px solid #666; border-radius:2px; -moz-border-radius:2px; -webkit-border-radius:2px; color:#fff; font:bold 9px/1 helvetica,arial,sans-serif; padding:6px 5px 4px; text-align:center; width:36px; }

ol.commentlist li div.reply:hover { background:#cc0000; border:1px solid #cc0000; }

ol.commentlist li div.reply a { color:#fff; text-decoration:none; text-transform:uppercase; }

ol.commentlist li ul.children { list-style:none; margin:12px 0 0; text-indent:0; }

ol.commentlist li ul.children li.depth-2 { margin:0 0 3px; }

ol.commentlist li ul.children li.depth-3 { margin:0 0 3px; }

ol.commentlist li ul.children li.depth-4 { margin:0 0 3px; }

ol.commentlist li ul.children li.depth-5 { margin:0 0 3px; }

ol.commentlist ul.children li.odd { background:#fff; }

ol.commentlist ul.children li.even { background:#f6f6f6; }

ol.commentlist li.pingback div.vcard { padding:0 170px 0 0; }

.commentnumber {
position: absolute;
left: 7px;
bottom: 3px;
font-size: 14px;
color: #ccc;
}

/* WordPress Required Elements */

.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft, div.alignleft {
float: left;
margin-right: 10px;
}

.alignright, div.alignright {
float: right;
margin-left: 10px;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 0;
/* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}

#today {
color: #cc0000;
}

#wp-calendar {
margin: auto;
}

.posts {
float: left;
}

.posts img {
margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;
float: left;
width: 100px;
}

You sidebar widgets’ styles are here:

.side-widget {
float: left;
margin: 0 0 10px;
padding: 0 10px 15px;
background: url(images/bg-hatch.gif);
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}

.side-widget ul {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style-type: none;
}

.side-widget ul li {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: 13px;
}

.side-widget ul li {
padding-left: 15px;
margin: 2px 0;
}

Add something like:

.side-widget ul li a {
color: #ff0000
}

to change the colour of the links in the sidebar widgets.