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CSS

Posted by Tyler Zika
Tyler Zika
14,402 Points

Have my content one background color, and left and right sides of the page a different color.

Hello,

I'm unsure of the terminology of what I am asking for. Here is a link of a similar website I'm trying to mimic

http://crowleyparty.blogspot.com/

If you notice the main content of the blog, it has a white background that never ends going up and down. Then the sides of the main content are a light pink. How does one achieve this?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Something like this? Basically it's a body background color, and a content background color.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pqcuj

Tyler Zika
Tyler Zika
14,402 Points

Kevin, that is it! Thank you! I hope I can get it to work. I copied the code from you link and it is not working on my blog for some reason..

Update: Got it to work!

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Glad to hear it! I threw that together quickly and simply just to show proof of concept and not bloat on the code. Now it's up to you to position, size, and style it exactly as you wish.

I used background colors such as 'lightpink' but you can replace that with a hex value color code to have a much larger range of color options.

Good luck!