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how do I change overall background color


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Old Mar 31, 2011, 05:50 AM
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I dont want an image for a background on my web page, I want a flat color. I tried creating a small image but couldnt figure out how to tile it. What do I need to do to change my background?
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Old Mar 31, 2011, 06:03 AM
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ato->Body, Text & Links->Body Style
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Old Apr 5, 2011, 05:17 PM
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I too would like to change the background color.

Could you elaborate on where that code is located.?

thanks.

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Old Apr 5, 2011, 05:34 PM
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Old May 2, 2011, 11:27 AM
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1 posts · May 2011
I've tried just going into the options and putting in a different hex code, and it's not working. Where in the CSS files can I change the color? I was looking at the stylesheet and it's not there.
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Old May 2, 2011, 12:54 PM
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Old May 3, 2011, 10:20 AM
krystyna
 
121 posts · Apr 2009
Juggledad, here's a challenge that's above and beyond a simple background color/image. I want to know how I can set both an image AND a color. The image doesn't fill the screen top and bottom, so I want a color to fill the rest of the viewing area.
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Old May 3, 2011, 10:23 AM
krystyna
 
121 posts · Apr 2009
Never mind, I found the answer myself ....

Go to HTML inserts, and add ...

BODY { background-color: #color }

with the word "color" being replaced with the hexadecimal equivalent.

Now the next challenge is to offset downward the background image by 20 px.
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Old May 3, 2011, 10:38 AM
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121 posts · Apr 2009
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To ATO > Body Text & Links > Body Style

Add

background-position: 0px 20px;

(first number offsets from left, 2nd offsets from top)
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Old May 3, 2011, 11:10 AM
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Old May 4, 2011, 12:55 AM
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1,112 posts · Mar 2011
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If the background image is a gif or png, make top 20px transparent. You probably want to add 20px to top of existing image before you do that.
If it needs to be a jpg, make top 20px same colour as background?

Or set it to start 20px down as suggested.

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Originally Posted by krystyna
Never mind, I found the answer myself ....

Go to HTML inserts, and add ...

BODY { background-color: #color }

with the word "color" being replaced with the hexadecimal equivalent.

Now the next challenge is to offset downward the background image by 20 px.
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Old May 4, 2011, 03:46 AM
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If you want both an image and a color, you use the CSS rule:
'background-color' to set the color and
'background-image' to set the image
you can use the 'background' short hand and pt both in the same rule if you want. go to http://w3schools.com/css to get the exact syntax.

The image will show and the color will show behind the image.
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Old Sep 22, 2011, 01:50 PM
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3 posts · Sep 2011
Thank you so much!

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