Wednesday, March 23, 2016

How to Change the Color of Address Bar in Mobile Browser to Match Your WordPress Site

Have you noticed that many popular websites like BBC and Facebook use their own brand colors for the address bar in mobile browser. Recently, one of our users asked us if we could write about how to change the color of address bar in mobile browser to match their WordPress theme? In this article, we will show you how to change the color of address bar in mobile browser to match your WordPress site.


Address bar color in mobile browser for WordPress site


Why Match Address Bar Color in Mobile Browser?


Most popular WordPress themes are mobile responsive. This makes your site looks great on mobile devices. However, it still looks and feels like a website.


Matching the color of address bar to your WordPress site, gives it a native app-like feel. This improves user experience, which ultimately boosts sales and conversions.


Color address bars in mobile browser on Android


However, please note that currently it only works for Google Chrome web browser on Android devices using Lollipop or newer versions.


Match Address Bar Color on Mobile Browser to Your WordPress Theme


Simply add this code in your theme or child theme‘s header.php file just before the closing tag.



This line is a HTML meta tag used by Google Chrome on Android to change color of address bar in mobile browser. The content field has the hex code for the color you want to use as theme color.


Not sure how to get the hex color code?


You can get the HEX value of a color using any image editing software like Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, etc.


Color picker in Adobe Photoshop


You can also pick a color using online HTML color picker tools.


If you want to pick a color from a web page, then you can use a browser extension like ColorZilla.


That’s all, we hope this article helped you learn how to change the color of address bar in mobile browser to match your WordPress site. You may also want to see our CSS Hero review, it is the easiest way to customize your WordPress theme.


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