Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-24967233-20140607052611/@comment-856287-20140607074031

CSS works by having a specific selector that tells it what to apply the styles to:

You have

So first, you haven't closed the very last style. There should be a } at the end of the file to signal the end of that style.

Second, your selectors, "solid," "one," and "two" don't actually select anything. For them to apply to anything, you would have to add  or   or   to an element.

In the BioShock wiki CSS, the selectors work because they actually select parts of the page: That selects for the element with class="WikiaPage" in it and applies those styles to that element.

If you want to re-style your wiki with CSS, you have to figure out which elements you want to style, and then write selectors that match those elements. In most cases, you can push command+option+i (ctrl+alt+i on Windows) to open the web inspector and find the elements by clicking on them. That should work with Safari, Chrome, and FireFox.

So, an element with  is selected like this, with a period first:

An element with  is selected like this, with a hash first:

To select every instance of an HTML tag, just use the tag's name. So, to select every paragraph  :

Then you can get fancy, like selecting every link  inside a paragraph   that's inside an element with the  :

There's a lot more to it, but that should help you get started.