Title: black background
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# black background

 *  [froggysky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/froggysky/)
 * (@froggysky)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/black-background/)
 * First, yes, I have searched the forums and read the documentation on making one’s
   own theme and have found related information but man, I am so stupid that I need
   someone to dumb it down for me.
 * I am using Kubrick theme. I have made a static home page and want to use a different
   sub-theme for that. Kubrick comes with a couple like “links” that I am trying
   to tweak so it has a black background (I am so illerate about this that I couldn’t
   tackle one from scratch). That’s all I need. The “problem” is that I don’t want
   to change the style sheet it calls on because I want that for other pages. Using
   the page editor, I don’t know how to change the background color either.
 * Just go ahead and mock me 🙂

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/black-background/#post-1083873)
 * Everyone has to start somewhere…
 * You need to create a custom page template with it’s own CSS class – eg:
 * `<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn custom">`
 * you can then use this new class within style.css to change the page content background
   color.
 * If that doesn’t give you enough additional control, the next solution would be
   to edit header.php and render a new id to `<div id="page">` based upon whether
   this page was using your new custom template. So, if your new page template file
   was called `mypage.php`, you could do something like:
 *     ```
       <?php if(is_page_template('mypage.php')):?><div id="page2">
       <?php else :?><div id="page">
       <?php endif;?>
       ```
   
 * That should give you a new page id to style on whenever you have assigned the
   new template to one of your pages.
 * and if you haven’t read them already,, you might want to look at:
 * Basic WordPress Theme Editing for the Non-Techie
    [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=170](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=170)
   and [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pagess#Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pagess#Page_Templates)
 * Hope that helps

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 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/black-background/#post-1083873)
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