Title: Adding background color
Last modified: February 19, 2018

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# Adding background color

 *  [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/)
 * Hi, I can’t figure out how to add a background color across all the columns. 
   Here’s what I’ve tried:
 * [columns-container style=”background-color:#419498;”]
    [one-half-first] content[/
   one-half-first] [one-half] content [/one-half] [/columns-container]
 * This is still leaving the background white.
 * I’ve also tried adding the style=background color to the actual columns, which
   works, but then one side is always longer than the other. how can I get a block
   of color behind the whole thing??

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 *  Plugin Author [Nick Diego](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndiego/)
 * (@ndiego)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9991236)
 * Hi Krisal,
 * That should work. I just took your code exactly and dropped it into a test site
   and it worked. Can you provide me with a like to your side where this error is
   occurring? I should be able to diagnose further.
 * Best,
    Nick
 *  Thread Starter [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999110)
 * Thanks for trying to help. I added the code to this test page, and it still doesn’t
   seem to be working:
    [https://kristalnorton.com/grab-a-badge/](https://kristalnorton.com/grab-a-badge/)
 *  Plugin Author [Nick Diego](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndiego/)
 * (@ndiego)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999162)
 * Hi Kristal,
 * Have you disabled the default styling for this plugin? It looks like it has been
   disabled. There is some custom styling for the columns container and I think 
   this is the root cause of the issue.
 * Let me know, thanks!
 * Nick
 *  Thread Starter [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999183)
 * Hmm, if I did, I don’t remember and wouldn’t know where to look! lol Could it
   be my theme doing it? I’m using the Dynamik child theme.
 *  Plugin Author [Nick Diego](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndiego/)
 * (@ndiego)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999193)
 * Take a look at your functions.php file and see if you find this:
 * `add_filter( 'gca_load_column_styles', '__return_false' );`
 *  Thread Starter [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * (@kristal13)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999885)
 * Yup, it’s there!! What use does that code have? I don’t remember adding it, but
   must have for some reason.

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 * Last reply from: [Kristal13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristal13/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-background-color-2/#post-9999885)
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