Title: CSS bgcolor issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CSS bgcolor issue

 *  [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/)
 * So I have this gray area in my hemmingway light theme that I can’t get rid of.
   I really just want the page to be white (except for the nav in the header and
   the footer) I have changed every bgcolor entry in the CSS file that I can find.
   I have also looked through the main index template code and not found anything
   that I could change there to manipulate the background color. I did insert some
   code (bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”) but that did not work.
 * Anyone have any other ideas? I’m sure I’m just overlooking something simple, 
   but can’t find it.
 * Thanks!!!
    [http://strong.weswu.com/](http://strong.weswu.com/)

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 *  [Trent Adams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trent/)
 * (@trent)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665857)
 * Doesn’t that theme have a repeating image as the background? Search your CSS 
   for a background image maybe?
 * Trent
 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665858)
 * Thanks Trent.
 * Didn’t think of that initially. However, that was not it. There were 2 background
   =”image” in the file that I changed. The others were for search, comments, or
   footers. I did not test changing those.
 * Any other suggestions?
 *  [Trent Adams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trent/)
 * (@trent)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665862)
 * I don’t have it on this machine, but [http://getfirebug.com](http://getfirebug.com)
   is an extension for firefox that tells you specifically what CSS is used when
   you click on a part of a “live” website. Something to look into maybe!
 * Are you editing both CSS sheets referenced?
 * /themes/hemingway/style.css
    /themes/hemingway/styles/white.css
 * As well, is the grey coming from a table or a CSS div?
 * Trent
 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665864)
 * its actually in a table. I’ve tried manually changing the bgcolor on the table
   to no success. Can it be looking at something else I’m not thinking of?
 * Thanks, I’ll try the utility you referred to.
 *  [Trent Adams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trent/)
 * (@trent)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665874)
 * Maybe?
 *     ```
       table th, table td{ padding:0.3em 0.75em }
       table th{
       	background:#aaa;
       	color:#000;
       	text-align:left;
       }
       table td{
       	background:#aaa;
       	color:#000000;
       ```
   
 * What color is #aaa ?
 * Trent
 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665880)
 * Thanks Trent:
 * This is about all the table code in there:
 * table{
    width:100%; border-spacing:0px; margin:0em 0; } table th, table td{ padding:
   0.3em 0.75em } table th{ background:#aaa; color:#000; text-align:left; } table
   td{ background:#aaa; color:#000000; }
 * When the #aaa is changed to #FFFFFF, (in both instances) nothing happens. Still
   a mystery. I’m installing that utility you pointed to now…
 * BTW – if you were literally asking what #aaa is, it’s a blue.
 *  Thread Starter [doubledubs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubledubs/)
 * (@doubledubs)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665883)
 * Trent: you are a god.
 * Thank you. Turns out that there was another css file that I was not seeing in
   my theme editor on the dashboard. white.css had to be edited through the website
   control panel, and it was there that the background color was being set. The 
   utility that you mentioned is exactly what did it.
 * Thanks again!!!!
 *  [Trent Adams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trent/)
 * (@trent)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-bgcolor-issue/#post-665898)
 * You are more than welcome….I guess I mentioned it above but didn’t look at it
   because I thought the #aaa was the problem! Glad to help out! 🙂
 * trent

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