How to Add Borders to a Blogger Footer Blogspot

In this Blogger tutorial I expand on my previous article about how to add a 3-4 column footer to Blogger by showing you how add border styling to the new footer. You will learn how to add a border around all of your footer columns or around only part of the footer columns. You will also learn how to add different border styles and border colors to customize your 3-4 column footer.

If you have just landed here and need instructions on how to add a 3 or 4 column footer to your Blogger blog then please refer to how to add a 3 or 4 column footer to a Blogger template (Blogspot template)

This is a walkthrough designed to assist bloggers with no experience of CSS styling who want to enhance their Blogger template with borders and other CSS styling. By following these examples you will gain the knowledge you need to make many types of custom changes to the borders of your new Blogger footer. For help with changing the background of your blogger footer please see my article How to Change the Background a Blogger Footer.

How to Add Borders to the Footer of a Blogger Template
To add lines (commonly known as borders) to a Blogger template footer we need to add some CSS styling.

Before beginning to add borders there are 3 values to consider:

• width of the border (line thickness eg 1px, 2px, 3px and so on)
  
• line style of the border (solid, dotted, dashed, double)
  
• color of the border (hex color)

1. How to Add a Border Around the Outside of a Blogger Footer
   First we add the border property and then add the border style, border width and the border color values. In these following examples just by changing these values we can achieve lots of different results.
   
   
   • To Add a Dashed Border Around the Outside of a Blogger Footer
     With the following code a dashed black line 1px thick will be added around the outside of the footer.
     
     

     #footer-columns {
     
     margin:0 auto;
     clear:both;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border: 1px dashed #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
     
   • To Add a Dotted Border Around the Outside of a Blogger Footer
     By changing the dashed black line to a dotted border it is simple to get a different line style.
     
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border: 1px dotted #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
     
   • To Add a Solid Border (Blue 3px thick) Around the Outside of a Blogger Footer
     To add extra emphasis we can change the line color and its thickness. Here I have made the line blue rather than black and thickened it from 1px to 3px.
     
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border: 3px solid #336699;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
   
   
2. To Add a Partial Border to a Blogger Footer
   Sometimes we might want to add a border to only one part of the footer area rather than the whole thing. Again we add the border property but we append it with the following values: (top, bottom, left, right) depending on where we want to place the border.
   
   
   • To Add a Solid Border to the Top of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-top: 1px solid #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
     
   • To Add a Solid Border to the Bottom of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
   • To Add a Dashed Border to the Top of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-top: 1px dashed #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
   • To Add a Dotted Border to Both Top and Bottom of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-top: 1px dotted #000000;
     border-bottom: 1px dotted #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
   • To Add a Dotted Border 4px thick to Both Top and Bottom of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-top: 4px dotted #000000;
     border-bottom: 4px dotted #000000;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     
     
   • To Add a Blue Solid Border 5px thick to Both Top and Bottom of a Blogger Footer
     

     #footer-columns {
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }
     
     Change to:
     
     #footer-columns {
     border-top: 5px solid #336699;
     border-bottom: 5px solid #336699;
     clear:both;
     margin:0 auto;
     }

     
     

In this Blogger tutorial (Blogspot tutorial) I have shown you how to make some simple customizations to the borders of a Blogger footer. This tutorial is intended as an extension of my earlier tutorial on adding a three or four column footer to Blogger. However it is also suitable if you are using a custom template and want to enhance the footer styling further. You have learned how to add borders to a Blogger footer and change the position, color, width and styling.

If you want to know more about CSS styling I will be publishing further articles in the future. Look out for my next article in this series How to Add Backgrounds to a Blogger Footer.

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Add a Comments Counter Button to Blogger Blogspot

In this Blogger tutorial (Blogspot tutorial) you will learn how to add a comments counter button to Blogger (Blogspot) to show off the number of comments each of your posts has received.

A comment counter button (bubble) will have the effect of encouraging visitors to comment on your Blogger blog and also help to highlight the credibility of your articles.


Installing this Blogger hack to add a comment counter button only takes a few minutes. The changes needed to add the comment bubble to Blogger while not difficult do involve adding a small snippet of code to your Blogger template in two places. For this reason I strongly urge you to back up your Blogger template before attempting this blogger hack.

Blogger Tutorial Difficulty - easy to medium

How to Add a Comments Counter Bubble to Blogger
A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
The following steps will insert a fully clickable comments counter button on the same line as the post title in Blogger. The comments counter is right aligned by default.

1. Log in to Blogger and the blog you wish to apply these changes to
   
   
2. Select Design > Edit HTML
   
   
3. Click on Download Full Template to back up your template before you make any changes
   
   
4. Check the Expand Widget Templates box
   
   
5. In the CSS Styling section of your Blogger template and just before the ]]></b:skin>
   
   

   .comments-button {
   width : 48px;
   height : 48px;
   background : url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUmhykgPQzYoyCAZjjEoekVvPRLEFlZckjiBjm7uUnqEyNkL_vYmJEWuRtiUdxVxHu5yfueWAgp0OzoJO5Fk_gRtPdj7C_yiRUwvz8INx5KFln8faDLHmUMfenXvXqwLyo6s8Kvkwrzj1/s200/comment-counter-bubble.png) no-repeat;
   float : right;
   font-size : 18px;
   margin-top : -15px;
   margin-right : 2px;
   text-align : center;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

   
   
6. Now find the following block of code using CTRL key + F
   
   

   <b:includable id='post' var='post'>
   <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template'>
   <a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
   <b:if cond='data:post.title'>
   <h3 class='post-title entry-title'>
   <b:if cond='data:post.link'>
   <a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>

   
   
7. Copy this code block:
   
   

   <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
   <a class='comments-button' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:post.numComments/></a>
   </b:if>

   
   
8. Insert as follows:
   
   

   <b:includable id='post' var='post'>
   <div class='post hentry uncustomized-post-template'>
   <a expr:name='data:post.id'/>
   <b:if cond='data:post.title'>
   <h3 class='post-title entry-title'>
   <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
   <a class='comments-button' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:post.numComments/></a>
   </b:if>
   <b:if cond='data:post.link'>
   <a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>

   
   
9. Save template and then view blog to admire your new comment counter badge.

Tips and Troubleshooting

1. If you prefer you can replace the button image I have provided with your own image. You can find other buttons easily enough by doing a Google search with a term like "speech button icons".
   
   Upload your button to a hosting service such as Photobucket and change the URL address of the image in the CSS styling section. The following example will render a smaller blue button. Note I have reduced the font size to accommodate the change. You may need to play around with the settings to get the font sizing right for your image.
   
   

   .comments-button {
   width : 48px;
   height : 48px;
   background : url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7FTvQ0d8Y1ZRuA6oWDrhK3LDNW7slb5ZXp7D7gm5VqqvwcpoAyCcGfGGH3bSHdPub_STAB45h6ORrTm_Q9_fFNoeLRbX3TpQuMPJZt9jSLBSGm8FmNtb9q9o3Olh8bWj5XcvVbQ1U-WBa/s200/comment-counter-bubble-2.png) no-repeat;
   float : right;
   font-size : 14px;
   margin-top : -15px;
   margin-right : 2px;
   text-align : center;
   padding-top:10px;
   }

   
   
   
2. If you want your comment counter to be left aligned instead of right you will need to change the CSS styling from float:right; to float:left;
   

In today's Blogger tutorial I have covered how to add a comments counter to a Blogger blog (blogspot blog) that will appear to the right of your blog post title. A comments counter is a way to encourage visitors to comment and is a way of showing off the credibility of your blog posts. Good luck! Any comments about installing this blogger hack are most welcome.


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How to Change Bullet Point Style in Blogger (Blogspot) Lists

In Part 1 of this three part series of Blogger tutorials I discuss how to change bullet point styles of lists you may want to include in Blogger posts. This first Blogger tutorial deals with unordered lists and how these can be styled using CSS in Blogger (Blogspot). The second part of these tutorials will deal with ordered lists while part 3 discusses bullet point changes you can make to your sidebar, footer and menus.

Today you will learn how to:

• change the style of bullet points in unordered lists
  
• add bullet points to unordered lists if they are absent
  
• add an image instead of a bullet to lists in your Blogger posts

This tutorial is rated easy and is designed so that even Blogger newbies can make the changes they want to their Blogger template. Changing the bullet point style involves changing the CSS styling in your Blogger template (Blogspot template). Join me as I walk you through this step by step guide.

How to Add Bullet Points to a Blogger Post
If you are still using the old Blogger editor you will need to add bullet points manually to any unordered lists you create in Blogger posts. If you are using the new editor the work is done for you. Either way though this is the type of code that generates unordered lists:

<ul><li>Create your own list markers in Blogger</li>
<li>Create unordered lists in Blogger</li>
<li>Create bullet points in Blogger</li>
</ul>

Any text can be placed between the two <li></li> tags. Simply copy this list into a Blogger post and substitute your text for mine and you will have an unordered list.

Circular Bullet Points
Circular bullets (also known as markers or discs) are displayed in Blogger by default whenever unordered lists appear. This means that whenever the <ul></ul> tags are used in Blogger posts a leader dot or disc will appear before each line of text denoted by <li>. (Note I will discuss ordered lists <ol></ol> tags in part two of this tutorial).

An unordered list in a Blogger post using the <ul></ul> tags would appear like this:

• Change Bullet Point Style in Blogger
  
• Add Bullets to Blogger
  
• Changing the look of unordered lists in Blogger
  

We can make lots of changes to the look of these filled discs or filled circles by changing the CSS styling in Blogger. For instance we can have squares, or we can choose to have no bullet point at all. Here's how.

To Add Square Bullet Points to Blogger (Blogspot)
The following code will replace the filled circle bullet points with squares instead:

1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in
   
   
2. From the Dashboard go to Design >Edit HTML
   
   
3. Back up your template
   
   
4. Find the posts section of your CSS stylesheet which will be before ]]></b:skin> tag
   
   
5. For the following default Blogger templates eg "Simple" add the following CSS code to the post section like this
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: square;
   }

   
   
   
6. Save template and view blog post to see the circular bullet points have been replaced by square ones

To Add Circle Bullet Points to Blogger (Blogspot)
To add unfilled circle list markers or bullet points to Blogger posts do the following:

1. Follow steps 1-4 as per square bullets
   
   
2. Add the following code to the posts section of the CSS stylesheet of your Blogger template by entering the following code:
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: circle;
   }

   
   
   
3. Save the changes to your template and view a blog post to see the empty circle bullet points

How To Indent Bullet Points in Blogger
There are two ways to increase the indentation of list style markers or bullet points.

1. Using the Inside or Outside Element
   The indentation of bullet points can be varied using the "inside" element. By default the list will be "outside" unless the "inside element" is used. The following code shifts the indentation of the list further to the right.
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: circle inside;
   }

   
   
   
   
2. Custom Indentation CSS Styling
   It is also possible to add custom indentation styling to lists. For instance here I have added a 2.5em indent using the following code to the circles example:
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: circle;
   margin-left: 2.5em;
   }

   
   

How To Replace Bullet Points with an Image in Blogger (Blogspot)
Sometimes you may prefer to have an image list marker or icon instead of a bullet point. You will need to host your image somewhere such as a free image hosting service eg Flickr or Photo Bucket. Follow the steps below to replace bullet points in your Blogger posts with an image

1. Follow steps 1-4 as per square bullets
   
   
2. In the CSS styling of the posts section of your Blogger template and before the </head> insert the following code:
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: url("http://URLaddressofImage.gif");
   }

   
   
   
3. Replace URLaddressofImage with the URL address of the image you have uploaded to an image hosting service. Note in most cases the file will have a .gif extension. If the extension is anything other than .gif you will need to change this too.
   
   
   
4. Save the changes to your Blogger template and navigate to a post page to see your image list marker installed

How to Remove the Bullet Points from Blogger Posts
If you are going for a minimalist look you may prefer to have no bullet points in the lists in your Blogger posts. In this case:

1. Follow steps 1-4 as per square bullets
   
   
2. In the CSS styling of the posts section of your Blogger template and before the </head> insert the following code:
   
   

   .post ul li {
   list-style: none;
   }

   
   

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How to Remove or Change the Blog Title Border in Blogger (Blogspot) - Minima Template

In this Blogger tutorial I discuss how to change the blog title border color or remove the border in a Blogger template (Blogspot template) by changing either the CSS styling of the border manually or by using the Blogger Template Designer feature.

Lots of bloggers have updated their Blogger template to the new default series of Blogger templates for 2010. There are however many of you who are still using the default Minima template from 2006 (and there are lots of good reasons to do so) so this tutorial is for you and anyone else who is using a custom Blogger template based on Minima.

You will learn how to change the border styling around the blog title to suit your individual requirements. You can either change the border color or remove the border altogether. If you want to remove the border around images in Blogger posts (Blogspot posts) then please refer to my Blogger tutorial How to Add, Change or Remove the Border Image in Blogger Posts

Remove or Change the Blog Title Border in Blogger (Blogspot)
There are two simple ways to remove the border around the blog title in Blogger. We are going to hide the border rather than actually remove the code that creates it by making the border color transparent. I will also show you how to change the border color.

Method 1 discusses how to do this using the Blogger Template Designer while Method 2 describes how to change the blog title border manually by changing the code.



Method 1 - Using Blogger Template Designer

1. Log in to Blogger
   
2. From the Dashboard go to Design > Template Designer
   
3. Go to Templates > Advanced > Border Color
   
   
   
4. Choose the down arrow color picker to activate the color palette window
   
5. Choose transparent which is below the color palette to remove the border around the blog title completely. You now will see the blog title border disappear. Or choose a new color from the color palette to change the color
   
   Remove Blog Title Border
   Change Blog Title Border Color
   
6. Click on Apply to Blog to save your changes

Method 2
If the Blogger Template Designer is not working on your template for some reason you can tweak the code in your template to remove the border around the blog title

1. Log in to Blogger
   
2. From the Dashboard go to Design > Edit HTML
   
3. Back up your Blogger template
   
4. Find the border color variable which will be near the top of the template code
   
   
   
5. Change the border color value to transparent to remove the border altogether so that your code now looks like this:
   
   

   <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color"
   type="color" default="#ccc" value="transparent">

   
   
   or change the value to a color of your choice eg
   
   

   <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color"
   type="color" default="#ccc" value="#ff7f00">

   
   
6. Save your template and view your blog to see that the border around the blog title has been removed or changed color
   
   

Tips and Troubleshooting
Below are some tips to help you further customize the blog title border width. You can either remove the inner border, thicken the outer border or thicken both borders around the blog title in Blogger.

1. To change the width of the border around the blog title in Minima change the following:
   
   #header {
   margin: 5px;
   border: 1px solid $bordercolor;
   text-align: center;
   color:$pagetitlecolor;
   }
   
   to
   
   #header {
   margin: 5px;
   border: 10px solid $bordercolor;
   text-align: center;
   color:$pagetitlecolor;
   }
   
   This code increases the border width from 1px to 10px
   
   
2. To remove the inner border around the blog title in Minima change the code to the following:
   
   #header {
   margin: 5px;
   border: 10px solid $bordercolor; (remove this line)
   text-align: center;
   color:$pagetitlecolor;
   }
   
   
3. To increase the width of the outer border around the blog title in Minima change this code
   
   #header-wrapper {
   width:660px;
   margin:0 auto 10px;
   border:10px solid $bordercolor;
   }
   

In this Blogger tutorial you have learned two methods to change the color of the border around a blog title in Blogger blog (Blogspot blog). I have also shown you how to increase the size of the border width. This tutorial applies particularly to the default Blogger template Minima but also is relevant for any blogger using a custom Blogger template based on Minima. Good luck!


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Add CSS Styling to Blockquotes in a Blogger Template

Today I continue the series of Blogger tutorials (Blogspot tutorials) by showing you how to apply CSS styling to blockquotes in a Blogger template. Other articles I have already published on the subject of CSS styling include:

How to Add, Delete or Remove Blogger Image Borders
How to Align and Justify Posts in Blogger
How to Add a Divider Between Blogger Posts
How to Add or Change a Background Image in a Blogger Template.

Today's tutorial on Blogger blockquotes will be useful if you are using a default Blogger template or a third party custom template. It will show you how to change your blockquote area in the following ways:

• Add a background color to the blockquote
  
• Add a border around the background of the blockquote
  
• Add or change the color of the blockquote text
  
• Add or change padding around the text
  
• Add or change the margin
  
• Add a background image

Blogger beginners you can relax as I have written this Blogger tutorial with you in mind. I will walk you through the steps of styling the blockquote section and you will see that it is not as daunting as it first appears. This Blogger tutorial assumes no knowledge of CSS styling. I have rated the difficulty level as easy to medium because it does involve making adjustments to your Blogger template.

How to Change the Blockquote Section of a Blogger Template

First of all let's take a look at the CSS Styling for the blockquote section of a default Minima Blogger template.

.post-body blockquote {
line-height:1.3em;
}

.post blockquote {
margin:1em 20px;
}

.post blockquote p {
margin:.75em 0;
}

As you can see the blockquotes area of this Minima template has minimal styling. Apart from line height and margin indentation there has been no additional code added to improve the look of the template.


Let's go ahead and give the blockquotes in your Blogger posts some styling. I will use the Minima template to show you but you can do the same for another default template or custom template. As always back up your Blogger template by downloading it to your computer before you begin to make any changes.

1. CSS Styling to Add a Background Color to Blockquotes
   Adding a background color to the blockquote area can be achieved in 1 of 2 ways.
   
   
   1. One way is to enter the hex color directly into the styling as I have done below. This code will add a light grey background to the blockquote area.
      
      

      .post-body blockquote {
      line-height:1.3em;
      background-color: #cccccc;
      }

      
      
   2. Another way to add a background color using CSS styling for the blockquote area is to make use of the variable names already set up. The border color is light grey #cccccc by default in a Minima template. The advantage of this option is that if you decide to change the border color under Layout > Fonts and Colors the blockquote color will automatically change to the new color too.
      
      

      .post-body blockquote {
      line-height:1.3em;
      background-color: $bordercolor;
      }

      
      If you wanted the background color to be the same as the blog title color rather than the border color you would write this instead
      
      

      .post-body blockquote {
      line-height:1.3em;
      background-color: $titlecolor;
      }

   
   
2. CSS Styling to Add a Border Around Blockquotes
   You have your background in place now let's add a narrow border around the background to add some more definition. The following will add a 1px solid border around the outside of your blockquote area in your Blogger posts.
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: #cccccc;
   border: 1px solid #cc6600;
   }

   
   or if using variables
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: $bordercolor;
   border: 1px solid $titlecolor;
   }

   
   
   
3. CSS Styling to Add Padding Around Blockquotes
   Now if we were to leave the styling at this point one of the problems would be that the text would butt up against the background which is not a good look. To create some space between the text and the background edge all the way around we use CSS styling to add some padding like this:
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: #cccccc;
   border: 1px solid #cc6600;
   padding: 20 px;
   }

   
   or if using variables
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: $bordercolor;
   border: 1px solid $titlecolor;
   padding: 20 px;
   }

   
   
   
4. CSS Styling to Add or Change the Text Color of Blockquotes
   If you want to accent your blockquote area in your posts one effective way to do this is to make the blockquote text color a different color from the text color of your pages. We do this by picking a color and adding the following line to the code:
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: #cccccc;
   border: 1px solid #cc6600;
   padding: 20 px;
   color: #cc6600
   }

   
   or if using variables
   
   

   .post-body blockquote {
   line-height:1.3em;
   background-color: $bordercolor;
   border: 1px solid $titlecolor;
   padding: 20 px;
   color: $titlecolor;
   }

   
   
   

Tips and Troubleshooting
If you want to add further modifications to the blockquotes area of your Blogger template here are several other possibilities.

1. CSS Styling To Change the Margin of Blockquotes
   You can increase the margin from 1em to 1.5em by changing the margin line to
   

   margin: 1.5em 20px;

   
   
2. CSS Styling to Add a Background Image to Blockquotes
   You can have your own image as a background in your blockquotes area of your posts by adding this line:
   
   

   background: url(http://URL of your image.jpg);

In today's Blogger tutorial (Blogspot tutorial) you have learned how to add CSS styling to the blockquotes area of your Blogger posts. I have shown you how to add a background, a background border, change the text color, add padding, change the margin and add a background image to the blockquotes code block. If you have a moment please let me know how you got on customizing your own Blogger template. Any questions please ask.


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Add a Post Divider Between Blogger Posts

In today's Blogger tutorial I show you how to enhance your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog) by adding a post divider to your Blogger template. Used effectively post dividers can really jazz up your blog and will lend it that individual feel which most of us are hoping to create.

This tweak is very easy and well within the capabilities of any Blogspot blogger. Only a few simple changes to your Blogger template are required and these are in the CSS styling section.


By way of example I will use a divider that I downloaded from the internet free by searching for free divider graphics. Here are some sample dividers you can use to get started:


URL address:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZbJ2UzWOUuyAcD8l5s-kn4zPRC0GWZc-gzhSEmH5t-j7q-vj6gkeUej7xXvH1yYVI5o_sevC4gLxbLBQ_h1m_RtMszPqMk3IsMIk97OtbgP7O4ZuIyq8Ut7L8iVxU1YTOYfYjhjWnzg/s400/ribbon.gif


URL address:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJp-D05D2suD8fegj1fuU-qqRtq3CHIpFPqcWYwpUAD5Et5h9XJ3c1wiaoLSeUVs4o_hGsc4FZB8v_S22xjviw-xO4iKzDHcR_cOLUzovXQ-sIZrSbHk5nPJm7MraRGHpd9zz9d2w8ac/s400/bar1.gif


URL address:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji8b1wsgW0nf_lFK7UtViHKRgGbk1GGV9WDaa6ZJFUqDRqDMhH-ckpQGce3_6gHns9dv9zpbmhwBHlr1NFRp-iLMSqCQEaWp3MlRZ3AA79MKy33a-OsAUkt-RPefM62RPlqfd6InToMLQ/s400/barbsmpl.jpg


URL address:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCtmjY4qC14dIcnZ1RNg98RsH24Suc7_0PUgYXuFFv_6WCJUFgnf1FbEFGeRJHoV20_oiFrGEC79j1VFsP8CgsXDYyexzwhKDxvkEoRCQ3Pvv0aLf7z5l1DzdqwgFerZLK1T6bhE72Q3U/s400/bar47.gif

How to Add a Divider Between Posts in Blogger

1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in
   
   
2. From the Dashboard navigate to Layout > Edit HTML
   
   
3. Back up your Blogger template as a precaution by downloading it to your computer
   
   
4. Find the following line of code in your template:
   
   

   .post {
   
   You are likely to have something like this in your template already:
   
   .post {
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;
   }

   
   
5. Paste the following lines of code to this block making sure you paste them before the closing curly bracket:
   
   

   background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZbJ2UzWOUuyAcD8l5s-kn4zPRC0GWZc-gzhSEmH5t-j7q-vj6gkeUej7xXvH1yYVI5o_sevC4gLxbLBQ_h1m_RtMszPqMk3IsMIk97OtbgP7O4ZuIyq8Ut7L8iVxU1YTOYfYjhjWnzg/s400/ribbon.gif);
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: bottom center;
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;

   
   
6. If any lines are duplicated remove them.
   
   
7. Remove any line beginning with: border-bottom: eg
   
   

   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;

   
   
8. You will now have a block of code which looks like this plus any extra lines from the existing code in this block:
   
   

   .post {
   background: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZbJ2UzWOUuyAcD8l5s-kn4zPRC0GWZc-gzhSEmH5t-j7q-vj6gkeUej7xXvH1yYVI5o_sevC4gLxbLBQ_h1m_RtMszPqMk3IsMIk97OtbgP7O4ZuIyq8Ut7L8iVxU1YTOYfYjhjWnzg/s400/ribbon.gif);
   background-repeat: no-repeat;
   background-position: bottom center;
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;
   }

   
   
9. Click on Save Template to save your changes
   
   
10. Click on View Blog to see your new post divider between posts
    

Tips and Troubleshooting

• To change the divider to one of the above replace the URL address of the image (in red) with the URL address of the new image you want to use.
  
  
• To use your own divider image download to your computer from the internet and then save the image to a photo image service like Photobucket. Replace the divider image URL address (in red) with the URL address of your new image
  
  
• To increase the padding around the divider change the following line of code:
  
  

  padding-bottom:1.5em;
  
  to
  
  padding-bottom:2.5em;

In today's Blogger tutorial you have learned how to insert a divider between your Blogger posts to enhance the look of your Blogger template (Blogspot template). You can either make your own post divider or download one from the myriad of free website dividers available on the net.

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How to Align and Justify Blogger Posts

This is the second article in a series about CSS styling tricks and tips for Blogger written with Blogger beginners and novices in mind but suitable for all bloggers who want to customize their existing Blogger template. While the first article dealt with how to add or remove image borders in Blogger today I show you how to align and justify Blogger posts.

Skill Level: Beginner

Rating: Easy

Time: 1 Minute

Many of the questions that my readers ask me are about how to customize various features of their Blogger template (Blogspot template). Over the coming weeks I will be focusing on some simple CSS styling tricks and tips to help you get more out of your Blogger template. Much can be achieved by learning a little about CSS. So before you rush off to download a custom Blogger template consider customizing your existing Blogger template.

This tutorial is part of a series of articles that I will publishing over the coming weeks about customizing your Blogger template using CSS styling. I will be targeting beginner bloggers and newbies to Blogger as well as more seasoned bloggers so if you want to spice up your Blogger template please read along.

How to Justify Blogger Posts (Blogspot Posts) Using CSS
It is easy to change the text alignment of your Blogger posts with the addition of one extra line in the CSS styling section of your Blogger template (Blogspot template). By default the alignment is set to left align so that the text aligns to the left while the right edge is ragged. You can also have right alignment where the text aligns to the right and the left edge is ragged.

Another not so common option is to justify the text so that both left and right edges are straight. Users of MS Word and other word processing programs will be familiar with justify as an alignment choice. Justify stretches out the text so that each line has an equal width similar to what you will find in newspapers and magazines. I have found justifying my Blogger posts to be a useful feature on several of my blogs and thought some of you might to. Below are instructions on how to justify your Blogger posts so that all your blog's articles are justified but first take a look at the difference in presentation of these 2 blog posts just by justifying the alignment of the text. Makes a big difference don't you think?

1. Before you start check how text is currently aligned on your Blogger posts. If it is left aligned you will be able to follow this trick to justify it. If it is already justified no need to go any further.
   
   
2. Login to Blogger if not already logged in
   
   
3. From the Dashboard click the Layout link for your blog and then click on Edit HTML
   
   
4. Back up your template by downloading it in full as a precaution
   
   
5. Use CTRL + F to find the code block beginning with .post in the CSS styling section of your Blogger template. As templates will differ greatly there are no hard and fast rules about what styling will be in this block. Here is a typical code block taken from the default Minima Blogger template
   
   

   .post {
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;
   }

   
   
6. Add the following line to the code block before the end brace (the end curly bracket)
   
   

   text-align:justify;
   
   so that your code now looks like:
   
   .post {
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;
   text-align:justify;
   }

   
   
7. Click on Save Template
   
   
8. Click View Blog to see the alignment of all your posts has now changed to justified
   

Tips and Troubleshooting

1. If your Blogger template justifies posts and you would like to left align them find the code beginning with .post in your Blogger template and add the following line to the block:
   
   

   text-align:left;
   
   so that your code now looks like:
   
   .post {
   margin:.5em 0 1.5em;
   border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
   padding-bottom:1.5em;
   text-align:left;
   }

   
   
2. If you want the posts right aligned you would substitute the word right for left.

In this tutorial you have learned how to justify your Blogger posts to create a straight rather than ragged margin edge. By using this tip to add one line of code to your Blogger template you can enhance the look of your Blogger posts. This tweak only takes a minute but can markedly improve the presentation of your Blogger posts. Please keep reading along for more CSS tips and tweaks in the coming weeks.

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