different background color for different categories

anyone that can help?

One thought: Perhaps you could use something like the get_the_category template tag within The_Loop. A little PHP logic to then set a CSS class name for the content?

There are also plugins that exist for “category pages”, but from your question I can’t determine if you’re concerned with lists of posts, single post view and/or both.

it’s for the lists of posts.

i want different color for the background color of the header on the post.
that way, people can tell what this post is about right way.

thanks chris!

i did the get_the_category thing as your suggested. then i put down the color # on the category description. then i just used this code:

bgcolor="<?php
foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
    echo $category->category_description  . ' ';
}
?>"

it works perfectly! thanks!