Plain Yoghurt Theme: How do I change the website page surrounding color?

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I have tried through 'customize theme' but the left and right edges of the screen (background?) remain white no matter what. I've used file manager in my cpanel to directly edit the main.css bakground color but to no effect. I'm trying to get users to focus on my page by removing the whitespace around it and leaving a crisp white page on the screen. The color I want to use is dark grey although an image might also be an option (e.g. graduated grey.jpg)

Brendant
 
Adreco replied on at Permalink Reply
Adreco
Try changing line 3 of the Main CSS (found at concrete-themes-default-main) showing
body {/* customize_background */ background-color: #ffffff; /* customize_background */ padding: 0px; margin: 0px; }
to background color: #808080 (replacing the #ffffff)

You then must clear site and browser cache both.

Let us know if this works please
Adreco replied on at Permalink Reply
Adreco
Brendan,
I forgot to mention... if you haven't already done so, copying the default theme to the empty theme folder one level up and saving the changes in that copy will both leave you with an unmodified original And your custom changes safe from being replaced/overwritten when you upgrade in the future.
Brendant replied on at Permalink Reply
Brendant
thanks guys - I tried line 3 but didn't clear the cache so I'll try that now.
Adreco replied on at Permalink Reply
Adreco
Sometimes just refreshing your browser will do it... but I'm normally not that lucky :)