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color of background out beyond “body”

I am developing a website and can’t seem to make the outer edge a different color. I’ve been playing with the CSS editor, which is marvelous! but while I can make the “body” background (90%) the color I want, I can’t make the outside 10% a different color. I’m sure it’s simple, I just can’t identify what element it is. Changing the wrapper color doesn’t do it. Here’s the current site: http://ehub52.webhostinghub.com/~midcoa11/?page_id=11

Any help would be gratefully accepted.

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  1. 7 years, 6 months ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Clare,

    I’m glad you’re liking it mate. :)
    Are you referring to the background of the box? If so, you can adjust that with the following CSS:

    #masthead.site-header {  background-color: #0f0;}#main.site-main {    background-color: #0f0;}

    With that said, you don’t actually have to use CSS for this. Please navigate WP AdminAppearanceCustomize, Theme Design. Open the Page settings group and adjust the Masthead Background and the Page Background settings.

  2. 7 years, 6 months ago Clare Durst

    Actually, no, I don't mean the background of site-header or main. I want to adjust what THOSE sit on top of. Look at
    http://ehub52.webhostinghub.com/~midcoa11/ – that navy blue that surrounds the white #main and #masthead.site-header. I have the feeling it's a border, and I well may have put it in myself but I can't locate it now.

  3. 7 years, 6 months ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Clare,

    I can’t seem to seem to see any navy blue on your page. Can you please send me a screenshot of what you see? Please note that we currently don’t support attachments so you’ll need to upload the image to a third party image hosting like vgy.me or imgur.

  4. 7 years, 6 months ago Clare Durst

    I’m sending you a link to a google drive file.
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxF_4YX2GmbGQ0hQVzRnREpQTE0

  5. 7 years, 6 months ago Clare Durst

    actually, it’s not quite navy blue. Dark blue.

  6. 7 years, 6 months ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Clare,

    Okay, so it’s the background of the page – just wanted to confirm, thank you.

    Please navigate toWP AdminAppearanceCustomize, Colors and adjust that background color as desired.

  7. 7 years, 6 months ago Clare Durst

    Yeah, ok, but there is no COLOR item in the menu, either just under Customize or under the Vantage theme customizations. What is the css tag? This is the first page of css: note that all the backgrounds are #ffffff, which is what I want for them; it’s what is “behind” them that is the dark blue that I want to change.

    body.layout-full {
    width: 100%;
    align-content: center;
    background-color: #ffffff;
    }

    body.sidebar-position-left.page-template-template-full-notitle #primary {
    display: none;
    }

    .so-widget-sow-image.so-widget-sow-image-default-3f547a15eaaa {
    width: 100%;
    }

    #main.site-main {
    text-align: left;
    position: relative;
    align-content: center;
    background-color: #fffffff;
    margin: 0px;
    }

    body.responsive.layout-full #page-wrapper {
    width: 90%;
    float: none;
    align-content: center;
    background-color: #fffffff;
    clear: none;
    margin: 40px;
    }

    #main {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border-color: #ffffff;
    }

    .main-navigation ul li:hover > a {
    padding: 5px;
    position: relative;
    }

    #masthead.site-header {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    }

    #masthead .hgroup .logo {
    background-color: #ffffff;

  8. 7 years, 6 months ago Alex S
    Hi, I Work Here

    Hi Clare,

    That’s odd. It definitely should be there. Hm. Maybe try navigating to WP AdminAppearanceCustomize, Theme DesignPage adjust the Page Background settings. Then go up a menu and open Footer. Adjust the Footer Background.

    Regardless, you can do this with the following CSS:

    #colophon, body.layout-full {    background: #293975 !important;}
  9. 7 years, 6 months ago Clare Durst

    That css did it. THANK YOU! What’s weird is that the page background was already white (when I changed it to red, i could see.) THe back background was still blue. But this fixed it! THANK YOU SO MUCH.

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