Look for
body{
background-color:#6699FF;
}
and comment out just the rule background-color:#6699FF; like this:
/*background-color:#6699FF;*/ or change it into a different color value.
Try not to fiddle around in css to much if you don’t know what you’re doing.
First rule of the stylesheet begin with a stray closing }. That shouldn’t be there.
Peter,
I tried to do what you said by putting slashes before and after and changed the color
to CCFFFF. Then I went to upload. When I open the site, it is not changed. Did I do it correctly? Do I also need to change the line that says color#898888?
About the stray closing, I did not touch anything else.
Thanks,
Christine
/* General
---------------------------------------- */
body{
/*background:url(images/tail-top.jpg) repeat-x center top #6699FF;*/
/background-color:#CCFFFF;*/
color: #898888;
font: 100%/1.125em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
position:relative;
}
Do this:
body{
/* background:url(images/tail-top.jpg) repeat-x center top #6699FF; */
/* background-color:#CCFFFF; */
color: #898888;
font: 100%/1.125em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
position:relative;
}
The * and / combo matter 🙂
Commenting something out means that it stops being code and becomes comment text. If you comment it out it stops working in other words.
background-color means the background color of the element
if you changed it to something else, you don’t want to comment it out. So, background-color:#CCFFFF;
color means the text-color.
The background showing right now, is a background image. To remove it, comment out (or delete but then you can’t recover it) this rule
#main {
font-size:.75em;
/* background:url(images/splash.jpg) no-repeat center top; */
}
(just below the rules on the body)
I tried this with 3 different number combinations and after uploading it does not change the background color. Any other thoughts? YOu have a space between the * and background and again after the ; Should that make a difference?
/* General
—————————————- */
body{
/*background:url(images/tail-top.jpg) repeat-x center top #CCFFFF;*/
/*background-color:#CCFFFF;*/
color: #CCFFFF;
font: 100%/1.125em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
position:relative;
}
/*background-color:#CCFFFF;*/
is commented out, so it doesn’t work.
remove the /* */
so you get
background-color:#CCFFFF;
