Title: Background color
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Background color

 *  [Christine Frisbee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfrisbee/)
 * (@cfrisbee)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/)
 * I have been working on changing the background color of a new wp site that I 
   installed on my GoDaddy account. I would like to change the colors. After having
   read on how to go to the styles css, I looked for the body and then the color,
   but I do not see it so clearly there. I also tried to change it from the GoDaddy
   FTP panel, but it did not change. The website is [http://www.TheseAreGreat.com](http://www.TheseAreGreat.com).
 * _[large chunk of CSS code moderated – a link to your site is enough to access
   the stylesheet]_

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 *  [Peter_L](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_l/)
 * (@peter_l)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426237)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [Christine Frisbee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfrisbee/)
 * (@cfrisbee)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426252)
 * 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;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426254)
 * 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 🙂
 *  [Peter_L](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_l/)
 * (@peter_l)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426274)
 * 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)
 *  Thread Starter [Christine Frisbee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cfrisbee/)
 * (@cfrisbee)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426282)
 * 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; }
 *  [Peter_L](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter_l/)
 * (@peter_l)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-color-9/#post-2426290)
 * /*background-color:#CCFFFF;*/
    is commented out, so it doesn’t work. remove the/**/
 * so you get
    background-color:#CCFFFF;

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