What genius here can overwrite CSS background color?

Discussion in 'CSS' started by shellyreynolds, May 31, 2008.

  1. #1
    Ok not that I'm a genius with this stuff, but I can't figure out a way to overwrite the CSS background color that works. I just need it on one page and any of the code I put it doesn't seem to work. Whoever here can tell me the proper code to overwrite the CSS to make the background white gets a gold star from me as well as the honor of 2008 Digital Point CSS Guru :p
     
    shellyreynolds, May 31, 2008 IP
  2. X.Homer.X

    X.Homer.X Peon

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    #2
    um..

    
    body {
      background-color:#FFFFFF;
    }
    
    Code (markup):
     
    X.Homer.X, May 31, 2008 IP
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    fabriciogr Active Member

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    #3
    as mentioned before it's

    body {
      background-color:#FFFFFF;
    }
    Code (markup):

    but you mention you can't seem to override it so i assume you where already doing that..

    if so that means either you have a typo in your css and style sheet is breaking or further down in your code some style is overriding the background color.

    what i usually do when i have a similar issue is try to put the style inline as this will override any previously declared css.

    so try this in your html code.

    <html>
    <head>
    ...
    </head>
    <body style="background-color:#ffffff;">
    ...
    </body>
    </html>
    Code (markup):

    if this works then you'll have to reverse engineer your css and see what's wrong.
     
    fabriciogr, May 31, 2008 IP
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    wd_2k6 Peon

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    Or shove it at the very top or very bottom of the CSS file I can't remember which one takes priority.

    ..

    Or just find the exisiting one in your CSS file which really isn't that hard, via the Find function...
     
    wd_2k6, May 31, 2008 IP
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    rochow Notable Member

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    Pretty sure it's at the bottom as its the last read (then again, theory is a wonderful thing that often turns out false)
     
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    shellyreynolds Peon

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    Thank you everyone for your help :D

    Unfortunately I still wasn't able to so I had to create an alt CSS to use on that page. It was on a custom create vBulletin page that still followed the styling of the rest of the vBulletin on the site. I tell you I've had so many problems when it comes to doing graphics within vBulletin. A lot of times that stupid program just won't let you overwrite anything, no matter what you do.

    Anyway you all get the gold star :p
     
    shellyreynolds, Jun 2, 2008 IP
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    X.Homer.X Peon

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    Well, you could have edited the vBulletin page css and added a class. but whatever. :p
     
    X.Homer.X, Jun 2, 2008 IP