Title: Background colour issue Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Background colour issue * [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/) * Site is [here](http://footybunker.com) and theme is technical speech. * For some reason when changing the background colour code in style.css…. * ``` /*Basic Styles*/ *{margin: 0px;padding: 0px;} a{color:#666;text-decoration:none;} a:hover{color:#31B640;text-decoration:none;} a img,img,img a{border:1px solid #EEE;padding:0;background-color:#EEE;} body{background:#fff;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} ``` * …as shown here, the main white in the middle of the page remains on the home page but disappears on all others IE on posts, catergory’s. Obviously this make reading difficult as we would like #123 as bg colour but for the central area, which is to remain white. * It’s almost as if there is a white image stuck in there somehow but only on the HP, almost like a frame. * Will be most grateful if anyone has an idea on this. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 19 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961463) * style.css: * ``` body { background:#fff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; } ``` * Change the background value. * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961563) * Am not completely with you esmi? * [Alwyn Botha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123milliseconds/) * (@123milliseconds) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961573) * Change your `body` style.css to look like esmi posted * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961574) * Thanks – tried that but posts and pages bg colour still showed through instead of remaining white and stayed as #123 which is the colour we require. * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961655) * Does anybody have any further ideas on this one please? BG colour is showing through the other pages and posts instead of keeping the white middle section. Only the homepage does it correctly at the moment. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961656) * All pages I looked at in IE8 and FF were white. Should the pages be white with a different bg color? * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961657) * Style sheet body, background is set to fff. Change to 123. * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961658) * They look ok at the moment as I have quite a few visitors all the time and don’t want to ruin their experience. If I change the bg colour to #123 then the inner pages all turn completely blue, except the HP which looks good. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961659) * Yes, I see that now. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961660) * Looks to me like you need to add a bg color to .contentbox and to sidebar. But the best might be a wrapper that would be the same width as the banner. That would give you the look you want. * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961661) * Sounds like a plan, will try and report back, thanks kmessinger * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961662) * Check this css validation link. It may have the answer. * [http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3a%2f%2ffootybunker.com%2f](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3a%2f%2ffootybunker.com%2f) * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961663) * Ok have changed and is live and looking much better, but on the inner pages there is just a small gap left and right of the central content, Do you know what that could be please? * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961664) * The interior pages have this error (hard to see because of bg color) * Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘?’ in /home/duploman/public_html/wp-content/ themes/technical-speech/comments.php on line 25 * Thread Starter [ocpplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ocpplus/) * (@ocpplus) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-issue/#post-1961665) * Yeah that was something I did on comments, ok now, but images on HP have been mashed too. 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