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1. daisy8
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there,

   I am just beginning to learn html. I really want the background color in the header - which is presently black - to be changed on my blog.

   Please can you point me to where to look for the html to change it. I can't find anything to do with color in the header.php template and have been looking at the Visual editing stylesheet, where it looks as though it might be.

   Thing is - what color is black - is it #444 ? Looking at color coding for html on the web brings up quite a range of different choices. How do you know one from another?

   Maybe I've asked too much here - I don't know. My main aim is to change the color from black to pale green in the header and the title of the posts in same header to black.

   With thanks to anyone who answers - site is: http://www.the-boating-store-blog.com

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   do you mean the menu?

   formatting, i.e. colors etc, is usually defined in the css stylesheet(s).

   the styles for the menu are all following this one in style.css:

   #access {
   	background: #000;
   	display: block;
   	float: left;
   	margin: 0 auto;
   	width: 940px;
   }

   #000 is black

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

3. daisy8
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there,

   Thank you. Yes, the black part is where the page menu is.

   I found the section you showed me in the css stylesheet and changed the background from #000 to #0C0 and saved it. (0C0) is a green color which I took from the wiki link you gave me.

   However, nothing happened. It's still black. I shut down and re-started the computer in the hope that that was the problem, but it didn't help. Do you know where have I gone wrong?

   With thanks

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   try to press 'ctrl' and 'f5' at the same time while viewing the site in the browser - this should clear the browser cache which sometimes hangs on to 'old stuff' for too long.

   or 'reload' the site in the browser (a few times).

   is see a lot of green, swamping the grey lettering of the menu items ;-)

5. daisy8
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you for that. Yes, the green swamped the menu lettering. I changed it again and it's much better now.

   I really appreciate the info on how to change the color. I did not like the black.

6. daisy8
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I changed to Twenty Eleven - (had to in order to get rid of being hacked and getting the site up and going again.)

   I've looked through the style css sheet to get rid of the black below the header image and cannot find it.

   What do I look for in order to recognise it in this new theme? Does anyone know please?

   Thanks

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