Title: Adding Different Backgrounds to Different Sections Using Add_Custom_Background
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding Different Backgrounds to Different Sections Using Add_Custom_Background

 *  [Moshe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buildpress/)
 * (@buildpress)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-different-backgrounds-to-different-sections-using-add_custom_background/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am wondering if it is possible to use add_custom_backgrounds (or add_theme_support
   in 3.4) for different sections. For instance, let’s say I want to have a one 
   background color for the body and another for the header section.
 * Is it possible to set up add_custom_backgrounds so that I can individually set
   values for each one?
 * Thanks,
 * Moshe

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-different-backgrounds-to-different-sections-using-add_custom_background/#post-2709464)
 * You can only have one instance of `add_custom_background` or `add_theme_support)`
   but certainly in the case of the former, there’s nothing to stop you writing 
   your own custom callback function to apply different background to different 
   page elements. I’ve used that approach to apply a background to (say) the html
   element instead of the body. But the downside is that you’ll still only get a
   single custom background form, so the user can only customise the background 
   on one element.
 *  Thread Starter [Moshe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buildpress/)
 * (@buildpress)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-different-backgrounds-to-different-sections-using-add_custom_background/#post-2709739)
 * Thanks for replying – I actually didn’t notice that someone did reply :).
 * If I understand what you are saying correctly, I can pass arguments to add_custom_background
   to change what it modifies, but I can’t pass any arguments to it so that it will
   modify more than one element – is that correct?
 * If so, then perhaps I could modify the add_custom_background function to accomplish
   what I want – i.e., to create a multi_add_custom_background function? My only
   question would be on how to actually do that – any ideas?
 * Thanks and be well,
 * Moshe

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 * [add_theme_support](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/add_theme_support/)
 * [background](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/background/)
 * [backgrounds](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/backgrounds/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-different-backgrounds-to-different-sections-using-add_custom_background/#post-2709739)
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