Simple formatting question (Wordpress)

[RedTen]

I've created some new category pages so that I can have text display above the list of posts in each category.

I need to format the text but I'm wondering if theres a simple way to just pick up the site default?

Currently the text is just sat between <p></p> without any formatting. Stupidly simple but googling wordpress text formatting just seems to refer to the posts themselves.

Thanks

 

[RedTen]

The sites default styles will be in the themes stylesheet. So there will most likely be something like .elementname p { styles}.

Easiest way to find it without reading the entire stylesheet would be to check the sites text with firebug (right click > inspect element), then you can see the class/id that the style has been applied to.

Then style your new text accordingly.

I can't find a style that matches properly. I've tried post and page but they align the text incorrectly.

Could I just format the text using HTML?

body {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 62.5%; text-align:center; background: #333; color: #444; }
a {text-decoration:none; color: #27629c; }
a:hover {text-decoration:underline; color: #cb0e3d; }
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {font-weight: normal; margin:0; padding:0; color: #222; }
h3 a:hover {text-decoration: none; }
p {margin: 0 0 16px; }

I essentially just need that in code?

Learning curve.