change background colour in coraline theme

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  brinded · Member · Feb 18, 2013 at 8:44 pm

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  hi, I’m struggling to change background colour for a specific page in coraline.

  I’ve tried following for changing entire theme bg:
  body {background-color:#b0c4de;}

  but that doesn’t work.

  if it did, I’d be able to specify:

  body-page-140 {background-color:#b0c4de;}

  any suggestions?

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  brinded · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 2:16 pm

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  It might save a great deal of time to have a list or guide for parameters that can be changed within a given theme.

  I found this page, and that may be what I’m looking for, only I don’t yet have enough knowledge/experience of CSS to be able to figure it out.

  Meanwhile, still trying to change page-specific background colour and page titles for that matter…

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  justpi · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 2:47 pm

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  The first item you pasted will work if you go to Appearance > Background and clear the color you’ve set there.

  The second won’t work because the selector is wrong. Needs to be:

  .page-id-140 {
      background-color: #b0c4de;
      }

  To change the color of the page title, you need this:

  .page-id-140 .entry-title {
      color: #123456;
  }

  General suggestion: learn to use Firebug.

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  brinded · Member · Feb 19, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  justpi,

  You’ve got me out of a fix again – many thanks.

  Firebug now up and running within Firefox – I had been working in Safari and Chrome, but it now looks like there’s a much better way of doing things.

  thanks again.