Title: Textarea background
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Textarea background

 *  [Bob Varaleau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob-varaleau/)
 * (@bob-varaleau)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-background/)
 * I have been trying for sometime now to change the background color of the textarea
   on my home page using CSS. Could someone please put me out of my misery and give
   me the CSS code to use.

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 *  Thread Starter [Bob Varaleau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob-varaleau/)
 * (@bob-varaleau)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-background/page/2/#post-4597486)
 * [http://freshbreezeinn.com/wordpress_new/inn_keeper/](http://freshbreezeinn.com/wordpress_new/inn_keeper/)
 * The code that stephencottontail worked out for us, is working fine but it did
   leave the background of the page title as a different color. This little addition
   resolved that.
 *     ```
       .site-content .entry-header,
       .site-content .entry-content {
                                   background: #000000; //BACKGROUND COLOUR
                                   color: #ffffff; //FONT COLOUR
       ```
   
 * As you can see from the link there is a light coral color around the content 
   area. I believe that to be the page background. If I go into the styesheet and
   edit the following code, I can make it any color I want.
 *     ```
       #page {
       	background-color: #f08080!important;
       	border: 1px solid #f03;
       	text-align: left;
       	}
       ```
   
 * I realize now that it is not a good practice to edit the stylesheet directly 
   so I copy and paste this code into my custom CSS and attempt to change the color,
   but it doesn’t work.
 * Would this have something to do with “!important;” part of this code?

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-background/page/2/#post-4597486)
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