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Posted by Jacob Wisniewski
Jacob Wisniewski
9,111 Points

Change Background Color of Panel-Heading (Bootstrap)

Hey guys, For my own project I am trying to customize bootstrap but when I try to change the background color of the panel heading component nothing changes.

I use this code:

.panel-heading { background-color: red; }

3 Answers

Jason Anello
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Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points
Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Jacob,

bootstrap.css contains a few style rules like this:

.panel-default > .panel-heading {
  color: #333;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
  border-color: #ddd;
}

This is one of the style rules that sets the background on "panel-heading". There are a few more like this depending on the type of panel you nested your panel-heading in.

The selector that you tried to use, .panel-heading, doesn't have enough specificity to override that.

If you simply match the selector that bootstrap uses then you'll be able to override that css.

Assuming that you nested your .panel-heading in a .panel-default then this should work:

.panel-default > .panel-heading {
  background-color: red;
}

I can give a more specific answer if you want to show the html that you're using for this .panel-heading, specifically what is it nested inside.

driantori
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driantori
Courses Plus Student 6,422 Points
driantori
driantori
Courses Plus Student 6,422 Points

try to put your code in the end of bootstrap css file and adding !important in your css selector.

.panel-heading {background-color: red!important}

hope that's work.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Donny,

I think that !important should be used sparingly if at all.

If you do this then you won't be able to override this style later on in a media query for example. You're pretty much stuck with red now.

Jacob Wisniewski
Jacob Wisniewski
9,111 Points
Jacob Wisniewski
Jacob Wisniewski
9,111 Points

Thanks that worked! I actually wasn't aware that I could add !important, that made it work in my css file