color change to text entry area in 2010 theme

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    targetentertainment · Member ·

    I cannot get the preview to work when I enter any of the tips on this forum on how to change the white (or transparent) color on all of the pages in my site. All I want to do is change the white to yellow. I am missing something. What am I changing? The body?

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    timethief · Member ·

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    targetentertainment · Member ·

    mac 10.6.8, firefox 9.01, https, connected via high speed modem. This is about entering the right html code in the CSS dialogue box in the correct form.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    First off CSS is theme specific, so if the examples you are trying are not for your theme, then it they will not work. This changes the #wrapper white area. You can edit the color code as desired.

    #wrapper {
background: #FFFF00;
}
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    targetentertainment · Member ·

    I am probably right up against my learning curve. I have a background color. I have a header. I have a several pages listed in the menu. What I have is a huge amount of white space. When I look at the original stylesheet for 2010, I cannot figure which part is the area I am trying to adjust, which is all white. To me, it looks like the area in column that my text is nested on, different from the background color.

    I have found code that I can change color in so I have established that at least some of my preview is working. I am confused as to what this section is called. I tried your code for and example and found no change anywhere throughout the site
    thanks

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    I just gave you the code.

    Add that to the CSS edit window, edit the color code if you wish in the background declaration, and preview. Sometimes the preview won’t show the change, so you may have to force refresh the preview page.

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    targetentertainment · Member ·

    Thanks so much. This did work. What I did this time was completely remove all the content from the edit window. I was under the impression that you had to have /* & */ bookending the script. So much for my grasp on HTML. A little knowledge can be a bad thing in the right hands. Good lesson for today. Now I know that all that white space is called a “wrapper”. In my WP class I took at the local community college where I built this site, that never came up once in the entire duration. Amazing.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Glad that worked, and /* & */ are used to enclose comments. It tells the browser “don’t pay any attention to what is between these.

    It isn’t always labeled in the CSS as wrapper, it could also be container, main, page, etc. It all depends on the theme author as to what they could call it. You always have to dig into the markup (xhtml) to see how the page elements are organized and structured, and how the CSS classes and IDs are done.

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