Title: Changing Margin Color
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing Margin Color

 *  [mrtumnas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtumnas/)
 * (@mrtumnas)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-margin-color/)
 * Hey, I’m kinda new to this, but how do I change the color of my [blog](http://www.growinggroceries.com)
   margin without changing the color of the content section?
 *  This is what I changed in the code in firebug-
 *     ```
       body
       {
       	font-family: Verdana, Tahoma;
       	font-size: 9px;
       	background: #524b41 ;
                margin: 40px 95px 0px 95px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  However, that changes the color of the whole page, I would like to be able to
   keep the area around my posts white.
 *  Also, while I’m asking questions, when I resize my window to 800×600 everything
   screws up. I assume I need to assigned a fixed width but I’m not sure where to
   do that either.
 *  Thanks, James

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 *  [positivenoize](https://wordpress.org/support/users/positivenoize/)
 * (@positivenoize)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-margin-color/#post-832793)
 * Have you set a background color to ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘content’? If not, they
   you’ll need to do this before you set the ‘body’ background color, else those
   ID’s are going to inherit and use the ‘body’ background color you set.

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