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Never mind. Serious brain freeze is setting in. It was just browser size on my screen. Sorry. Time to step away from the computer.

Hi, and thanks for responding. Yes, I understand where the CSS is. And I have firebug. And i was about to change the padding of the links when you answered. What concerns me is that the appearance of the nav bar changed this morning during the course of my adding and deleting gallery plugins. I had not been messing with my nav bar styling at all today. I don’t understand how this change happened all by itself.

I have the exact same question.

OK, I figured out what was responsible.

You’re absolutely right; I hadn’t followed the part of your suggestion which mentioned putting this code at THE END of the stylesheet. I didn’t realize that the order of stylesheet code makes a difference, so I had just stuck it into the middle.

Yay! It worked perfectly, once I moved it to the end.

Thanks again!!

Hi! Thanks for responding — sadly, however, adding this line to the css doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Editarea abruptly reappeared a minute ago. Kind of like a poltergeist. Maybe it’ll stick around this time.

OK, I figured it out.

OK, I started with a brand new empty child theme and it’s starting to work.

Here is my entire stylesheet right now:

[CSS moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please just post a link to your site.]

Done. And it doesn’t change anything in the appearance.

Oh, I see. Well, I’ll keep on studying. If necessary, I’ll strip the child theme back down to its virgin state, and start over.

Thanks again for your assistance and explanations. I’m really glad for this support forum.

OK. Well, I appreciate your interest and effort. Just for future reference, in case I end up just removing the @fontface part of my css, could you please tell me where in the CSS you were trying to make changes?

And also, without my admin password, how would it be possible for you to actually change my CSS?? That’s kind of a scary thought. How does that work?

Oh. That sounds ominous. What’s the logical next step; exorcism?

Thanks for responding, vtxyzzy. The changes I want to make are:

remove the black bar altogether.
Just have the links be plain words, without any box around them.
A horizontal line beneath them, all the way across.
Change the font color, and perhaps size.
Possibly change the font itself: (This is a bit tricky for me, because I have my nifty downloaded font installed, but it’s not a great font to have throughout the entire site, and so I have to learn how to de-activate it when necessary, and to call a different font when needed.)

I’m mostly capable of putting together the html, free-standing, to create the kind of nav menu that I want. And if I have created the html, then I can figure out how to reference it in the stylesheet. I just don’t get how to integrate that into the dynamic WordPress environment, and I really still don’t get the “php generates html” concept.

Thanks!