Title: Background problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Background problem

 *  Resolved [chindu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chindu/)
 * (@chindu)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-problem-1/)
 * Hello:
 * Love your theme and have used it. Have two issues, though:
 * 1) Is there a way I can rank/order the categories? Right now it is falling in
   alphabetic order.
 * 2) As the homepage downloads, for a brief second there is a flash of black background
   before the white comes on. I was wondering how to stop that (to see what I mean,
   perhaps you could take a quick look at [http://www.mwcjournal.org](http://www.mwcjournal.org),
   which is live at the moment). This ‘flash of black’ happens on a few other posts
   as well — while some pages are just fine (downloads cleanly on to the white background).
 * Grateful for your help…
 * Chindu

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 *  [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/)
 * (@txanny)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-problem-1/#post-1132223)
 * I’ve experienced this only with Google Chrome. And also the default theme does
   the same. Perhaps the way Chrome manages the CSS styles? On FireFox and IE, I
   cannot see this.
 * Which browser are you using?
 * About categories, this is related to the Categories widget that comes with WordPress,
   and the theme can do nothing. I seen some plugins that do what you want, unfortunately,
   I cannot remember the names, sorry.
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-problem-1/#post-1132224)
 * If you mean the header area is dark briefly you can resolve that by giving the
   header element a white background colour, it shouldn’t clash with what you have..
 * It appears you have a dark background set, so it waits for the header image to
   finish loading, in the mean time while that happens it uses that darker colour…
 * If that’s what you mean, just add this to the #header in the stylesheet (you 
   have definitions for this in 3 places already).
 * Find this…
 *     ```
       /* ------------------------------------------------------------- HEADER */
       ```
   
 * Just below there, where you see #header… change this…
    `background-color: #800000;`
   for… `background-color:#fff;`
 * As long as you don’t have other background images loading in the header that 
   clash, it should resolve the background being dark whilst loading..

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-problem-1/#post-1132224)
 * Status: resolved

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