Title: Help Making Admin Color Different
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help Making Admin Color Different

 *  [thomasstrock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasstrock/)
 * (@thomasstrock)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-admin-color-different/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * I am having some trouble switching the background color of the admin comments
   on my blog [http://www.MobileAppTycoon.com](http://www.MobileAppTycoon.com) I
   can change the background color of the comments using this code in the CSS:
 * li.bypostauthor {
    background-color: #FFFFCC !important; }
 * However, if you look at my code, you will see that there is a separate “background
   area” for behind the commenter’s name and if you check out a post on my site 
   you will see that although the background color changes behind the comment, it
   doesn’t change behind the name. (.comment-author is what it is referred to in
   my CSS)
 * Is there a way to change the background of .comment-author for admin comments
   instead of the background color behind the body text of the comment?
 * Would really appreciate your help! Thanks!
 * Thomas

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-admin-color-different/#post-2771803)
 * please use a tool such as Firebug for these kind of formatting problems; [http://getfirebug.com/](http://getfirebug.com/)
 * example:
 * `li.bypostauthor .comment-author { background: orange; }`
 *  Thread Starter [thomasstrock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomasstrock/)
 * (@thomasstrock)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-admin-color-different/#post-2771854)
 * Thanks so much – worked perfectly!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-making-admin-color-different/#post-2771854)
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