Adding Border to Each Widget in the Sidebar

[thilton838]

I am looking to add a border around each widget in the sidebar. Can I modify this in the Theme Options or do I need to place in CSS?

Website is: aliciamhilton.com

[nabeel]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in! You can do this CSS, please try adding the following code in the Theme Options > CSS:

.x-sidebar .widget {
    border: 1px solid #000;
    padding: 10px;
}

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Cheers!

[thilton838]

@Nabeel

.x-sidebar .widget {
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 10px;
}

Thank you. This created several other questions:

1. Can I choose to add border around specific widgets?

2. Can I choose to have a border placed around 2 widgets together?

3. Can I extend width of border?

[paul.r]

Hi,

1. You need to be able to add a unique class to your widgets so you can target it individually.

You can try this third party plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-css-classes/

eg. If you added mycustomclass

Then you can target it using that class

.mycustomclass {
       border: 1px solid #000;
       padding: 10px;
}

2. This isn’t possible but you can make it look that way by setting the bottom border of top widget to 0 and making the top border of bottom widget to 0.

a) Add topwidget class on your top widget

.topwidget {
       border-top: 1px solid #000;
       border-left: 1px solid #000;
       border-right: 1px solid #000;
       border-bottom: 0;
}

b) Add bottomwidget class on your bottom widget

.bottomwidget {
       border-top: 0;
       border-left: 1px solid #000;
       border-right: 1px solid #000;
       border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
}

3. Yes, you can change 1px in the code to adjust the width of the border

eg.

.mycustomclass {
       border: 10px solid #000;
       padding: 10px;
}

Hope that helps