try:


red is my favorite color.

Tallacman, This is what I've got:

[/* HTML Tag Redefinition */
html, body {height: 100%; }
body{ background-color:#f7e9af;}
/* customize_background */ background-color:#f7e9af; /* customize_background */ padding: 0px; margin: 0px; }]

Is something wrong here? I still don't get the background color. There's some duplication from a previous effort. Is this the main.css file my theme is using or am I in the wrong place? I also tried to change the header space from 64 to 0 and that didn't make a change either. Please keep this simple, like loud and slow in English. Thanks.

Wendy --

What you posted your second time around should be working. It's odd that it's not (there's some invalid stuff, but that'll get stripped out).

HOWEVER, there's a much better way to go about this. See the /* customize_background */ tag in the original? That's c5-unique comment for customization. Go to your dashboard -> Pages & Themes -> Customize (of your currently-chosen theme, which is highlighted). You should then be able to click on the square before "Background" and get a color-picker to choose from. Change the color, save it, and go back to the homepage.

I find that CSS files get cached a lot so you might have to restart your browser. (You can also open the HTML, click the main.css file link, and reload that manually.).

James

jshannon, I discovered the Pages & Themes> Customize Theme option early on, almost a year ago but I've never been able to get the background to take. It shows up correctly in the Customize window but when I go back to the website, it's always white again. Any ideas? I've cleared the cache in Sitewide Settings and even disabled the Basic Cache. I'm not sure how to
"click the main.css file link and reload that manually."
But, I'd be grateful for any help.

jshannon, I discovered the Pages & Themes> Customize Theme option early on, almost a year ago but I've never been able to get the background to take. It shows up correctly in the Customize window but when I go back to the website, it's always white again. Any ideas? I've cleared the cache in Sitewide Settings and even disabled the Basic Cache. I'm not sure how to
"click the main.css file link and reload that manually."
But, I'd be grateful for any help.

jshannon, I discovered the Pages & Themes> Customize Theme option early on, almost a year ago but I've never been able to get the background to take. It shows up correctly in the Customize window but when I go back to the website, it's always white again. Any ideas? I've cleared the cache in Sitewide Settings and even disabled the Basic Cache. I'm not sure how to
"click the main.css file link and reload that manually."
But, I'd be grateful for any help.

I know this was posted 6 years ago, and I don't know if you guy still use this. If you want to set the whole website to a certain background color, try this:

html {
background-color: /* Set color here */;
}