Title: Add background
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Add background

 *  [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/)
 * How can one add a back ground to this ?
    admin / Uncategorized / 1 Comment [http://www.addictivehobby.com/wordpress/](http://www.addictivehobby.com/wordpress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286662)
 * Any help here ?
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286674)
 * look like in your css you could add a background to
 *     ```
       #centercol .post .meta-nfo {
       	padding-top: 10px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286718)
 * Its just this text
    admin / Uncategorized / Comment I want to add a background
   to…….
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286723)
 * I know, my suggestion didn’t work?
 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286834)
 * Not really……..
    It added the background to more than the text
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286838)
 * were you just adding a background colour through the css? The easiest way may
   be to draw up simple gif or png image with transparency, and just having colour
   where you want the background colour to show. and applying the background image
   through css
 * -trying to apply just a background colour to those words could be difficult, 
   as you would have to mess with margins and padding and stuff to reduce the area
   covered by the bg colour…which in turn would affect your layout…
 * (Again…my standard disclaimer…I’m still learning css, and just saying how I would
   go about accomplishing things….others may have better ideas for you)
 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286867)
 * Yeah!- seems a wee bit more complicated than I thought..
    I was wanting it to
   look like this- with the red background [http://psd.tutsplus.com/](http://psd.tutsplus.com/)
 *  [Nile Flores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blondishnet/)
 * (@blondishnet)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286868)
 * You need to designate your background. This is where they have done theirs and
   encased it between the small tag. You can do this with a class tag as well.
 *     ```
       #content .exerpt small {
       	background-color:#ad0000;
       	padding:3px;
       	padding-left:8px;
       	padding-right:8px;
       	color:#fffffe;
       	font-size:1.0em;
       }
       #content .exerpt small a {
       	color:#fffffe;
       	text-decoration:none;
       }
       #content .exerpt small a:hover {
       	text-decoration:underline;
       	color:#fffffe;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286869)
 * blondishnet : Where should I put that code ?
 *  Thread Starter [billybond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billybond/)
 * (@billybond)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-background/#post-1286894)
 * I managed to do it….but the background is a wee bit too big & the post headers
   need to be below
    Any suggestions ? [http://www.addictivehobby.com/wordpress/](http://www.addictivehobby.com/wordpress/)

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