Title: Transparent background in customizer
Last modified: May 3, 2017

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# Transparent background in customizer

 *  Resolved [ahs_boy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahs_boy/)
 * (@ahs_boy)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-background-in-customizer/)
 * I was on WP 4.7.3 with a child theme of WP-Forge, and I’m using a transparent
   image in my header. I don’t want a background color — there’s an underlying image
   and I want the header to be overlayed. Originally, I specified “” (nothing) as
   the “Header Content Background Color,” and that allowed the background to be 
   transparent.
 * The latest theme update seems to use “#ffffff” as the default, and I can’t figure
   out how to change that to “transparent.” The customizer only allows hex values,
   and since the default is now set to white, it is unclear how to render it transparent.
 * I am currently using a !important CSS rule to override it, but that’s sloppy.
 * Is there another workaround?

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 *  Theme Author [ThemeAWESOME](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsquez/)
 * (@tsquez)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-background-in-customizer/#post-9094422)
 * Hey there,
 * Yes the only way is to use the “!important” rule. I apologize for any inconvenience.
   I am looking at an alternative color picker that allows transparency but that
   won’t be available until the next release.
 * Again I apologize for any inconvenience.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-background-in-customizer/#post-9094422)
 * Status: resolved