Adding background to only the sides of blog

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  minnejew · Member · Jul 28, 2008 at 4:11 pm

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  I am using the Tarski theme and I have not figured out how to set just the sides of my blog to a color or pattern while keeping the middle the same(white)…By setting the background to a color or image it covers the entire background, I would just like the sides! Is this possible or do I need to use a different theme? Thanks in advance.

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  boblets · Member · Jul 28, 2008 at 4:48 pm

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  Depends, if the bits you want changed have an actual id except background, such as sidebar, etc.
  assuming you have the css upgrade?
  Give us a link to your blog, and explain which bits exactly you want changed.

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  minnejew · Member · Jul 28, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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  sorry.. the link is:

  http://minnejew.wordpress.com/

  The whole background is white.. I’d like to break it up and have only the sides a color or pattern instead of the entire background.

  I do have the CSS upgrade.

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  boblets · Member · Jul 28, 2008 at 5:51 pm

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  Two possibillities –
  you can either set the background the colour/image you want, and then change the background colour of your other elements (such as content/sidebar/header etc) to white.

  Find the name in your css for header, sidebar and main content – this varies from css to css, and set background of these elements to white.

  Unless it it actually defined so, the white is not really “white” – it is “transparent”, as you found when you changed the background.

  Or you could make a background image that has coloured edges. This is a little fiddly, as it depends on screen resolutions etc, but can work fine.