Help, would like a background colour to text. Referred here.

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  smartcasinoacademy · Member · Nov 25, 2015 at 12:30 am

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  Having a background colour faded behind my writing. Any help please?
  Thanks

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 25, 2015 at 11:36 pm

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  Hi, can you explain a bit more what you are wanting here? Are you talking about a greyish overall background, or are you wanting some sort of gradient from top to bottom?

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  smartcasinoacademy · Member · Nov 26, 2015 at 12:55 am

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  I wanted a red background behind my words on my site. I had pictures at the top but seems unable to put a background to the text.

  Also, How do I do a gallery of pictures or videos?

  Any help would be a appreciated, thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 28, 2015 at 12:56 am

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  Hi there, give the following a try. It uses RGB color with an alpha transparency. The last number in the parentheses is the transparency. The closer to 0 the more transparent. The closer to 1, the more opaque.

  #page {
      background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  }

  Let me know what you think.

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  smartcasinoacademy · Member · Nov 28, 2015 at 2:43 am

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  Hi yes , I put this at the bottm/top of HTML format on the page? I did put it in at the bottom but all that came up was this on the page itself when updated.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 28, 2015 at 6:35 pm

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  The above is CSS. Go to Appearance > Customize > CSS and paste in the above custom CSS.

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  smartcasinoacademy · Member · Nov 28, 2015 at 10:24 pm

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  yes that is brilliant exactly what i wanted. what are the abbreviations for the colours I would like please.

  Thank you very much

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2015 at 7:11 pm

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  It depends. the 255, 255, 255 I gave as an example is actually white, but because it has a 0.3 transparency, it appear a light reddish color.

  Are you wanting a solid color? If you are looking for a solid color with no transparency, then I would suggest a hex color code. This is a good resource for web safe colors: http://cloford.com/resources/colours/websafe2.htm .