Remove color box behind all text

This topic should cover it, also you may try to search more on Twenty Twelve support forum, because main site structure and code is almost the same:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/transparent-background-for-post-page-sidebar?replies=6

Thank you. I searched on there and found this bit of code to put into my child’s theme and it worked:

#page.hfeed {
background: transparent;

But that did not remove the white background from the footer. Would this also have to be some sort of code I need to put in my CSS or would this be something in the footer.php file?

Thank you so much for all your continued help!

You could try to replace #page.hfeed with footer

Thank you Tomas. That didn’t work but lead me to the solution! The following code placed into my child’s theme did work for anyone interested to do the same:

footer#colophon {
background: transparent;

I hope that you properly closed both statements, because they should end with } like this:

footer#colophon {
background: transparent;
}

Yes, thank you for the reminder!