WordPress.com Forums » Tag: sidebars background color - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/sidebars-background-color WordPress.com Forums » Tag: sidebars background color - Recent Posts en Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:40 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 designsimply on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1082068 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:51:14 +0000 designsimply 1082068@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I would recommend trying it out with the Preview button on the Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page. Even if you don't have experience with CSS, you can always learn if you're interested!

]]> timethief on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1064426 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:27:51 +0000 timethief 1064426@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ What I said was that we regular Volunteers don't recommend that any blogger who lacks CSS editing experience purchase this upgrade. The reason I said that is because waiting for Staff support for CSS editing is not a matter of hours it's a matter of days.

]]> btse1 on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1064099 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:54:24 +0000 btse1 1064099@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your replies. I think I read a reply from timethief to someone else's question on this forum which basically said unless you're a CSS expert, purchasing the custom upgrade is a waste of money. I think that describes me. I'm reasonably comfortable with html, but have only taken baby steps with CSS.

]]> houstonweaver on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1063814 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:46:43 +0000 houstonweaver 1063814@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I had a similar need on my theme, and I wasn't totally happy with the effect I achieved so there may be a much better solution out there. What I found was that I could get the grey background behind all the widgets on my theme but it stopped at the bottom of the last widget whereas I pictured the complete "column" having that color. I never did achieve it. But this is similar to what I used:

#sidebar2 {background: #eee;}

]]> timethief on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1063730 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:33:08 +0000 timethief 1063730@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello there,
This is the link to CSS stylesheet for the version of Mystique theme that we have here at WordPress.com.
https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/mystique/style.css

]]> btse1 on "Trying and failing to change BG color of sidebars" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/trying-and-failing-to-change-bg-color-of-sidebars#post-1063712 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:19:57 +0000 btse1 1063712@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In an on-line article by the author/developer of the Mystique theme at http://www.techlila.com/mystique-theme-modifications-hacks/, he posts a number of hacks. I am interested in No. 23 which he describes thus:

Make the sidebars grey (#eee) and the main content white (#fff):

.c2right #mask-1,
.c2left #mask-3,
.c3 #mask-2,
.c3left #mask-3,
.c3right #mask-1
{background: #fff;}

.c2left #mask-1,
.c2right #mask-3,
.c3 #mask-1, .c3 #mask-3,
.c3left #mask-2,
.c3right #mask-3
{background: #eee;}

However, this is *exactly* the same (default?) code which appears when I go to my Dashboard -> Custom Design -> CSS. BTW, I have not tried to modify my CSS with this hack.

Can someone explain to this dummy what I’m missing here? My sidebars are not grey.

Thanks!

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