How to add Custom CSS to Blogger Blog

This tutorial is for the new Bloggers who are not aware of adding Custom CSS to Blogger Blog. Adding the CSS to the template has a lot of advantages, as the added CSS can be called with its class or ID whenever it is needed. You don’t need to add them again and again.  If you are very new to blogging, I recommend you to read, How to create a Blog in Blogger, Giving Professional look to blogger, Running your blog on a custom Domain, Creating Posts and Pages in blogger, Adding custom Robots.txt.

What is a Custom CSS?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. This is a style sheet language that describes the look and formatting of the document written in HTML. In simple words, CSS is used to style the elements of HTML. In blogger, the template comes with some standard CSS and the CSS that you are going to add in your blogger template is called Custom CSS. This CSS may have the codes for your buttons, Styling, and Formatting of your <div> tag etc. Let us see the steps in adding this CSS code to your blogger blog. Example for this CSS is given below

.YourClassName {
margin: 1px;
color: #EFF8FB;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: relative;
border: 0px #fff;
background-color:#2E9AFE;
border-radius: 5px;
}

Adding Custom CSS to Blogger Blog

CSS can be added to blogger blog in three ways. The easiest method is to add it to the customizer or Template Designer. The other methods include adding the CSS directly into the template in the template editor, or else uploading the CSS separately in some file sharing sites and linking them to your blog template. This method of linking the external style-sheet saves a lot of lines of codes in your HTML. Let us see the easiest method here.

Login to your Blogger and go to the Blog in which you want to add the custom CSS. Navigate to the Template in your left sidebar and click Customize button as shown below.

In the Customizer Click the Advanced Tab and click Add CSS from the submenu that appears. Enter your CSS there in the space provided. and Click Apply to Blog button on your top right corner as shown here.

You have now added Custom CSS to your Blog.

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