Admin Forum:Styling the main page tally number

This is CSS 101 stuff, but for some reason I'm having no luck with it. I want to affect the style of the tally number and the accompanying MediaWiki:Oasis-total-articles-mainpage on tardis:Doctor Who Wiki, our main page.

But somehow I'm not getting the syntax right. I think the error is simply in the way I'm referring to the page. Which of the following will do the trick?

Or is it something else altogether? I'm not getting much joy out of any of these. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help diagnose. 21:39: Tue 25 Sep 2012


 * Have you tried:
 * Both the the "em" and and "span" elements are using their own styles, so in order to modify them, you have to specify the selector more precisely. — Sovq 15:02, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Both the the "em" and and "span" elements are using their own styles, so in order to modify them, you have to specify the selector more precisely. — Sovq 15:02, September 26, 2012 (UTC)
 * Both the the "em" and and "span" elements are using their own styles, so in order to modify them, you have to specify the selector more precisely. — Sovq 15:02, September 26, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep, that did the trick. Though I'm not quite getting how you found that particular selector, I thank you for letting me cross something else off my "to do" list.   18:41: Thu 27 Sep 2012