Add Background Bar to Activity Feed? Adjust Link Color?

[usmf]

Thanks to suggestions from a couple people here, I have started over with a new default theme and am coloring it myself.  Two questions . . .

First: Is there a code that I can add to custom CSS to create a light background bar for all items in the Activity Feed? Attached is a picture showing the current look. Any new posts already have the background light color. I'd like that to appear behind the updates of updated profile pics and the like.

Second: Some of the plain text links are still showing up in a light grey color. I have changed the codes in the Themes/Text editing area for links and link hover to #000000 -- but the links shown in the second attachment here are not showing as true black until you hover. Then, they work. How can I fix that?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Edited January 21, 2021 by usmf

[Morrigan]

The second is normal. Its an opacity thing to show that its anything. You can change it but you don't have to.

And I think for the first one:

.ipsStreamItem_actionBlock {
	background: #fff;
}

 

[usmf]

Thanks so much! That was a perfect fix for the first question. 

I would like to change the opacity on the second question, but so far . . . nothing I've tried is working.

[Morrigan]

.cStreamFilter p em {
	opacity: 1;
}

 

[usmf]

12 hours ago, Morrigan said:

.cStreamFilter p em {
	opacity: 1;
}

 

Thanks. I have tried that with and without !important added, but it does not seem to change it.