graham333

“If you remove the lines in your CSS that refer to rems, that should allow your font sizes to change correctly.”

Bingo!

That’s got it, thankyou so much Stephen, I have been persistently persisting around with that for ages, I thought it was the theme doing it. ??

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 Stephen,
Yes that’s correct, just there.

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.

Hi Stephen,
thanks for the swift reply,
Theme is 2012 default, I cannot post a link it is not live yet.

Thanks Michael,

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

Marking as resolved.

Dang, who put it in there ??

Thanks Michael, you are a steely-eyed WordPress man ??

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.

Hey Nick,

Thanks for your reply, I tried reloading the parent theme (but not 2015)in case it cocks something up :-)and that made no difference.

However I was tinkering around today (as you do with Wp:)and think I may have found the problem (which may be a bug, IDK)

In the Dashboard > Screen Options there is a function (quite new I think) called: Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality.

Naturally I was using useful function, so I unchecked the box and bingo! it has stopped the buttons sliding up and down.

If anyone else is suffering this problem, try this first.

Marking as resolved – thanks again Michael

Bingo!
One small step for you… one huge leap for me ??

Thankyou so much Michael
I believe you are the legendary Alchymyth are you not?

I wish you were my neighbour then I could rock this stuff ??
Have a great day, and Merry Christmas to you.

Wilco ??

@ fedeandri

Thanks very much, that’s exactly what I needed.

Have and great weekend and Merry Christmas! ??

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

Quick update,

I have just added
/* twentytwelve_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); */ to the PARENT template category.php and it has worked, the category pages are loading properly with no errors and the Older posts link has gone WTF? <scratches head>