changing sidebar background color

[tomsepe]

I've looked at every color setting in the stylesheet and in the sidebar.php, page.php, and index.php and I can't find a way to change the background color of the sidebar!

Please help!

Thomas

[QuietCitizen]

It's an image. Edit the image, or remove it in the css.

[tomsepe]

I found the kubrickbgcolor.jpg file but it is for the page background.

none of the images in the kubrick theme images folder seem to correspond to the sidebar background!

wtf?

[Resiny]

it isn't a background image. A little ways down in the style sheet you will see:


.secondary {
font: 1em/1.5em 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
padding: 10px 0;
margin: 0 0 20px 71%;
width: 26%;
color: #666;
position: relative;
/* The following are IE Fixes */
_padding: 30px 0 10px;
_margin-left: 0%;
_margin-right: -4%;
_width: 26.5%;
}

add:

background: #hexcode;

and that's it.

If you want to make the sidebar stretch all the way down the page, then you have to use a repeating png image. If you need help, just PM me and I can give you a hand :)

[tomsepe]

I couldn't find the .secondary in the css.

I'm using 2.0 if that makes a difference.

But I tried adding

#sidebar {
background-color: #000000;
}

to the css and that did the trick!

man I tweaked everything trying to find this solution (a good way to learn!)

but now my page doesn't look right in firefox:

http://sepeblog.com


hmm what did I do?

[tomsepe]

no that is a total kludge... didn't really solve the problem there is stil a column of the old color showing through

darn

[lisa]

For kubric, the sidebar background is included in the overall background. The only way to change it, is to edit the file.

Look at this post: http://getk2.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1133&postcount=6, an the image you see is of my background for my site at http://www.dariaunplugged.com

As you can see, the sidebar background is a part of the image.

[tomsepe]

ok

finally found it --- trail and error

its in the header.php

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

controls the background of the sidebar.

phew!

[Resiny]

ah. I asumed you were using k2. yes, what I wrote was incorrect

[lynu]

Hey im using K2 template and i'm interested in changin sidebar color!!

I did this and had no effect.

.secondary {
font: 1em/1.5em ‘Trebuchet MS’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
padding: 35px 30px 10px;
margin: 0;
background: #666
color: #666;
float:left;
_margin-left: 0%;
_margin-right: -50%;
width: 250px;
}

Help!?