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Content and Color Dreamweaver

LuckyFinigan · 2012-11-26 21:39:31

This is probably a stupid question, but how do you keep the color of your content areas separate from the background color. I'm developing a site at the moment and I having some trouble getting it to look the way I want. I'm using divs to hold the content but they stay the same color as the background, I'm presuming you…

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26-11-2012 10:39pm

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LuckyFinigan

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This is probably a stupid question, but how do you keep the color of your content areas separate from the background color. I'm developing a site at the moment and I having some trouble getting it to look the way I want. I'm using divs to hold the content but they stay the same color as the background, I'm presuming you have to use css to do it? I'm a bit out of practice with Dreamweaver, I haven't really used it properly since last year. I've been looking over the code from a previous site I did but I cant seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong this time.

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#2 27-11-2012 12:34am
KonFusion

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Apply a separate background colour to the div that the content is in.

Go here: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_background-color.asp

Post your code if you can't figure it out.

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