Okay, the best example of what I'm asking is the google adsense located at the bottom of this post. Take a look and then come back up here. Basically, I put a leaderboard ad on the footer of one of my sites, right under a menu. But the menu is significantly wider than the leaderboard. So to make it look less tacky, I tried to put a white background behind the leaderboard so that viewers would see white space on either side of the ad (right now, it's show a background image). Everything I tried did not work so I'm obviously missing something. How can I get a specific color to appear behind the ad?
Give your div an id and style it using css. For example <div id="leaderboard"></div> and then in your stylesheet, simply do #leaderboard{ background-color:#fff; } note: #fff is the hex color for white.