Title: centre background image Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # centre background image * [fishgun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishgun/) * (@fishgun) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centre-background-image/) * what’s going wrong here? * [http://cashdoodle.com/](http://cashdoodle.com/) * I have a background image in my header “greyspacer.png” this is the lighter grey box that is obscuring the majority of my page. * I want it to show centred behind my all my content including my logo images, leaving the darker grey as a background colour. * I’m very new to web design, so please try and avoid one line comments like “use a div”. * thanks Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [royho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royho/) * (@royho) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centre-background-image/#post-1419932) * Well first of all you don’t need an image if you are going to use just that color. You can define that in CSS. What you should do is give your wrapper a margin: 0 auto; put the background color you want inside a div surrounding the rest of your content. Something like this:
<—-style the grey box in this id
* And for the overall darker grey that you have, declare that in the body tag inside the CSS… Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘centre background image’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Backround](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/backround/) * [centre](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/centre/) * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [royho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royho/) * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/centre-background-image/#post-1419932) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics