Title: Background
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Background

 *  Resolved [varatalin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varatalin/)
 * (@varatalin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/)
 * Site is hosted on Bluehost
    I haven’t been able to get the background color to
   change. I’ve tried it in 2 different locations. I’ve also tried to add a background
   image in the two locations and it’s not showing up. I did notice a couple of 
   times when I went to load the site, it flashed the background image and then 
   brought up the site with the standard white background.
 * The 2 places, I tried changing the background were:
    dashboard side bar under
   Appearance -> background The other spot was under Appearance -> customize and
   then in the left hand side, I went to Colors and selected a background color.
   When those didn’t work, I tried putting in background images in the same locations.
 * What am I missing/doing wrong?
 * Thank you
    -Sherry

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 *  [Spence "The Evil Genius" Forman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/labzip/)
 * (@labzip)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/#post-4989334)
 * Hi Varatalin,
    might you provide us with the url of your site so we can help 
   you?
 * Cheers!
    spence
 *  Thread Starter [varatalin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varatalin/)
 * (@varatalin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/#post-4989419)
 * [http://www.sherryct.net](http://www.sherryct.net)
 *  [9bode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hello9bode/)
 * (@hello9bode)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/#post-4989482)
 * Do you have a child theme for your site?
    If you do not, then please create a
   child theme first! Then in your css file put the following codes to have the 
   background color of your choice for each section!
 * #header {
    background-color: #a7e2e5; }
 * #nav {
    background-color: #a7e2e5; }
 * #main {
    background-color: #a7e2e5; }
 * #footer {
    background-color: #a7e2e5; }
 * If you like to have the background image to appear instead of the color, then
   replace above lines
    background-color: inherit;
 * with background-color: inherit;
 * that should do the trick!
 * Hope that helps!
    9bode
 *  Thread Starter [varatalin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/varatalin/)
 * (@varatalin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/#post-4989524)
 * I created the child theme and I’m learning a bunch about how that works and I
   setup the background colors like you described. It worked. 🙂
    Thank you.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-41/#post-4989524)
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