Changing background color

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 12:02 am

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  Is there a way to change the background color of my blog?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 2:12 am

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  If you are talking about the area behind the content, you can add the following and edit the hex color code as desired. The second bit of code turns the background color of the widgets to transparent. If you want them to be a different color than the main content area, you can put a color in there (hex color code, etc.).

  #wrapper {
      background: #CC0000;
  }
  
  .widget ul {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
  }

  If you are talking about the background area outside of the content area, you can set the color for that by going to Appearance > Customize > Background and set a color there.

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:34 pm

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  Thanks very much….worked great. Love the new background.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 3:37 pm

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  Hooray! and you are very welcome. The color looks warm and inviting. Nice choice.

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 5:26 pm

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  Curious…why do the comments show up in various color backgrounds?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  In some themes, the author’s, or the site owner’s comments are styled differently to differentiate them from the comments of visitors. Some themes also alternate the styling of odd and even number comments, and some do both.

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 5:48 pm

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  So I can assume there’s no way to control them?

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  mrdirby · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 7:28 pm

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  Hi disc440, you can control the color.

  This targets the author color. If you want it to do something else let us know.

  #comments li.bypostauthor > .comment-container {
  background: #e9f6fc;
  }

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 12:27 am

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  Hi, not sure about that…I used it but all of the comments still show up in different colors and no real pattern to any of it? It’s no big deal but the comments look rather weird with different colors and some are offset?

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 2:39 am

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  The pattern is that every other top-level comment has a background color. Replies to any of those will still be in the background color. If the post author (you) replies, those are all colored light blue.

  To remove the comment background colors for every other comment as well as for post author comments in the Pilcrow theme, add this to your Appearance > Customize > CSS editor:

  #comments li.thread-alt,
  #comments li.author_comment_alt,
  #comments li.bypostauthor > .comment-container {
  	background: none;
  }

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  disc440 · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 12:49 pm

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  Thank you design simply….exactly what I wanted. Appreciate you.

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 2:37 pm

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  Cheers :)