Title: Layered Container– help? Advice?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Layered Container– help? Advice?

 *  [briscoe14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briscoe14/)
 * (@briscoe14)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layered-container-help-advice/)
 * I installed a theme, was humming along and am now stumped.
 * My website is here: breaktempo.com
 * All I want to do is find a way to shade the area behind the content on both the
   home page and individual post page to make them stand out more from the background.
   Just a gray shade (or gradient) to that whole container and I’m set…but have 
   spent hours trying to resolve this myself. Could use some help…
 * See the gray bar across the top of the home page? I want to shade the container
   that runs that width and all the way to the bottom of the comments…
 * Disclaimer: could be lack of coding knowledge, because I don’t have much. Grateful
   for any ideas…

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layered-container-help-advice/#post-3072028)
 * Not totally sure what you want, but perhaps adding the background-color to this
   CSS — line 778 of style.css:
 *     ```
       #content-container {
           background-color: #3E3E3E;
           height: auto;
           min-height: 200px;
           padding: 40px 0;
           width: 960px;
       }
       ```
   
 * But do be aware that unless you use a Child theme or custom CSS, any changes 
   will be overwritten when you update the theme.
 * Also that commercial themes are not generally supported here so you may need 
   to contact the vendor for more complicated help.
 *  Thread Starter [briscoe14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briscoe14/)
 * (@briscoe14)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layered-container-help-advice/#post-3072152)
 * Thanks for the quick reply! Didn’t realize that about commercial themes, appreciate
   the info anyway.

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 * Last reply from: [briscoe14](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briscoe14/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layered-container-help-advice/#post-3072152)
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