change color of sidebar

  • I would like to make the sidebar the purple color, like the header of my blog, which is the .png image.

    The footer is also purple, but I found out how to change that from the style sheet.

    Here is the blog url: https://www.everywomansnorthstar.com/wordpress/

    If you look to the left and right sidebar area, it is white.

    Can someone tell me where I need to go to change that to the purple color?

    I have looked everywhere and can’t find it.

    Any help will be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • You should be able to add the following in your theme’s style.css file:

    #sidebar {background-color: #481243;}

    Thread Starter jbento

    (@jbento)

    Hey woodent,
    That doesn’t work.

    It changes the background color of the area where I have: Archives, Categories, Blogroll, and Meta

    Any other ideas?

    That area is the sidebar of which you have just one.

    If you look to the left and right sidebar area, it is white.

    If you mean the left and right of the sheet that is the body, this is set to white #FFFFFF, change that in the themes style.css, look for body and change the color, if that is what you want.

    HTH

    David

    That area (with the Archives, Categories, etc) is what we refer to as the sidebar.

    I think you may have been referring to the background area. If you are wanting to make the entire background the purple color, I am afraid there is a lot more involved than just changing some CSS.

    You will need to change the background images themselves as well as make changes to the CSS. To see what I mean, find this section in your css file:

    body {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    text-align:center;
    color:#333;
    font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;
    background:#fff url("images/bg.png") repeat-x top center;
}

    and change the last line to this:

    background:#481243 url("images/bg.png") repeat-x top center;

    Because of the way the background images are used, you will have to do a bit of an overhaul.

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