background color not working

A quick look with the element inspector shows you have some css that is overriding background-color. Remove the !important from that in your css. Alternatively, add a background-color with !important attribute in css for the ssb container.

ssb-container {
    background-color: #000 !important;
}

ok that looked way over my head, I know basically NOTHING about wordpress – But there is a God, a miracle just happened and I managed to figure out how to do it- THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU- love these miracles lol

oh shit, I used the right-click inspect to add in the background color and it worked but found it didn’t actually save the changes – I have no idea how to access the file to make those changes – can I some how change it using that “inspect” feature?

Add this code:

ssb-container {
    background-color: #000 !important;
}

See also: https://enigmaweb.com.au/where-to-add-css-in-wordpress/

I’ve installed “simple css” added the code- no changes. I added the code into the css style of the theme- no changes. I even went into the customize css and added that code and still no changes. The forces are not with me ??

it worked when I added background color to that “inspect” feature but that doesn’t save the changes ??

Do you have a caching plugin or service running (eg Cloudflare)? Because I’m not seeing the new code being called at all…

not that I can see, but I really wouldn’t know for sure as I’m new to wordpress. I bought this template and it had about 5 different passwords to get it to work- it’s insanely secure so it can’t be used on more then one domain.

I’ve downloaded the style.css files as well this merged-style.css file because it seems to hold the ssb code. I’ve added the code you suggested to both files but still nothing is working. When I do use the “inspect” feature and add “Element.Style background color it displays exactly what I need but doesn’t save it. So I’ve added the code element.style {
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}

to both of these files and still not working.

now sure what else to try