WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Can't change background color of "body" in Neat http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Can't change background color of "body" in Neat en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:00:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 swedith on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35448 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:52:22 +0000 swedith 35448@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, sunburntkamel, that did the trick. Now, can we take it one step further? What's I'd really like is to use a backgroun image ( I have the tile jpg). But I don't know how to write the path. Thanks for the Firefox link.

What confuses me is that the style.css I downloaded for NEAT did not include a background-image (or at least I couldn't see it) and yet I knew it displayed as a gradient. Should I have used a different method for obtaining the original css for modifying?

]]> sunburntkamel on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35374 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:28:29 +0000 sunburntkamel 35374@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ heh, !important is totally a cheat. it's probably not necessary for for background-image, but background-color didn't kick in until i threw the important.

i use the firefox web developer extension to edit the CSS live. it'll let you see what CSS sheets are loaded, and you can edit things and see what happens.
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/

]]> timethief on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35368 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:20:08 +0000 timethief 35368@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @kamel
From the sidelines I think I see that the combined use of the background colour
background-color: #454C67 !important;
and eliminating the existing image
background-image: none !important;
is meant to override what's already in the theme. *lol* if you keep giving online css customization classes I may soon have enough !important info to try to brutalize my own theme. ;)
P.S. I'm looking forward to reading the swedith stories. :)

]]> sunburntkamel on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35364 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:50:43 +0000 sunburntkamel 35364@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ try this:
body {<br /> font-size:70.5%;<br /> font-family:'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;<br /> background-color: #454C67 !important;<br /> color:#000;<br /> text-align:left;<br /> margin:0;<br /> padding:0;<br /> background-image: none !important;<br /> }

neat! uses a background image, so changing the color will be overridden by the default style.

]]> nosysnoop on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35210 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:52:55 +0000 nosysnoop 35210@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I was at Blogger I use to change my blackground alot and add images and change the color. But I just went there now and remembered that you take the html code and place it in between:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6160/bloggerdl0.png

But when I clicked Preview, it didn't fit the entire blog the way it should. So you have to figure out the height and width problems. But the code goes there.

]]> swedith on "Can't change background color of "body" in Neat" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-background-color-of-body-in-neat#post-35189 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:40:47 +0000 swedith 35189@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am just a beginner at blogging (with some css experientce). My blog (not public yet) is a tweaking of the NEAT theme. I purchased the css editor and have managed to make some customizing. But the Body backgroun-color stubbornly stays the same no matter what I do with it.

Looking at the theme, it appears that the body background is really an image (blue gradient) and not really a background-color. But there is no such style as background-image, only background-color. What I really want to do is add a background image (a speckled rust graphic) to match my web site (www.swedithintina.com) but I can't figure out what path to put in to link to an image for the background-image.

Right now I have changed the css to background-color: #C74A24 (the original is background-color: #454C67) but the end result remains blue. How can I correct this?

Thanks.
http://www.swedith.wordpress.com

Here's the css I'm using;

body {
font-size:70.5%;
font-family:'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
background-color:#C74A24;
color:#000;
text-align:left;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}

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