I cant change the color of the background!!! help please

[nin97]

hey there,

i'm trying to change the light grey background layer that surrounds the forum body from light grey to a really dark grey or black!

where can i change this? should it be in the CSS file? i tried looking for it everywhere in there

here's my css:

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/* Normal, standard links. */
a:link
{
   color: #FFC000;
   text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited
{
   color: #FFC000;
   text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover
{
   color: #FFFFFF;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
/* Navigation links - for the link tree. */
.nav, .nav:link, .nav:visited
{
   color: #FFC000;
   text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav:hover
{
   font-weight: bold;
   color: #FFC000;
   text-decoration: underline;
}

/* Tables should show empty cells. */
table
{
   empty-cells: show;
}

/* By default (td, body..) use Tahoma in black. */
body, td
{
   color: #F0F0F0;
   font-size: small;
   font-family: verdana;
}

/* The main body of the entire forum. */
body
{
   background-color: black;
   margin: 0px;
   padding: 0px;
}

/* Input boxes - just a bit smaller than normal so they align well. */
input, textarea, button
{
   font-size: 9pt;
   color: #FFFFFF;
   font-family: Tahoma, arial, helvetica, serif;
   background-color: #000000;
}

/* All input elements that are checkboxes or radio buttons. */
input.check
{
}

/* Selects are a bit smaller, because it makes them look even better 8). */
select
{
   font-size: 8pt;
   font-weight: normal;
   color: #000000;
   font-family: Tahoma, arial, helvetica, serif;
}

/* Standard horizontal rule.. ([hr], etc.) */
hr, .hrcolor
{
   height: 1px;
   border: 0;
   color: #666666;
   background-color: #000000;
}

/* A quote, perhaps from another post. */
.quote
{
   color: #FFFFFF;
   background-color: #000000;
   border: 1px solid #FFC000;
   margin: 4px;
   padding: 4px;
   font-size: x-small;
}

/* A code block - maybe even PHP ;). */
.code
{
   color: #000000;
   background-color: #cccccc;
   border: 1px solid #000000;
   padding: 1px;
   font-family: "courier new", helvetica, "times new roman", serif;
   font-size: x-small;
   width: 99%;
   margin: 1px auto 1px auto;
   white-space: nowrap;
   overflow: auto;
}

/* The "Quote:" and "Code:" header parts... */
.quoteheader, .codeheader
{
   color: #000000;
   text-decoration: none;
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-size: x-small;
   border: 1px solid #000000;
}

/* Generally, those [?] icons.  This makes your cursor a help icon. */
.help
{
   cursor: help;
}

/* /me uses this a lot. (emote, try typing /me in a post.) */
.meaction
{
   color: red;
}

/* The main post box - this makes it as wide as possible. */
.editor
{
   width: 96%;
}

/* Highlighted text - such as search results ;). */
.highlight
{
   background-color: yellow;
   font-weight: bold;
   color: black;
}

/* Alternating backgrounds for posts, and several other sections of the forum. */
.windowbg
{
   color: #cccccc;
   background-color: #333333;
}
.windowbg2
{
   color: #cccccc;
   background-color: #424242;
}

/* All the signatures used in the forum.  If your forum users use Mozilla, Opera, or Safari, you might add max-height here ;). */
.signature
{
}

/* These are used primarily for titles, but also for headers (the row that says what everything in the table is.) */
.titlebg, tr.titlebg td, .titlebg a:link, .titlebg a:visited
{
   color: #000000;
   font-style: normal;
   background-color: #171717;
}
.titlebg a:hover
{
   color: #dfdfdf;
}

/* This is used for categories, page indexes, and several other areas in the forum. */
.catbg
{
   background-image: url(images/catbg.jpg);
}

/* This is used for a category that has new posts in it... to make it light up. */
.catbg2
{
   background-image: url(images/catbg2.jpg);
}

.catbg, .catbg2
{
   font-weight: bold;
   background-color: black;
   color: #838383;
}

/* This is used for tables that have a grid/border background color (such as the topic listing.) */
.bordercolor
{
   background-color: #333333;
}

/* This is used on tables that should just have a border around them. */
.tborder
{
   border: 1px solid #666666;
   background-color: #333333;
   padding: 2px;
}

/* Default font sizes: small (8pt), normal (10pt), and large (14pt). */
.smalltext
{
   font-size: x-small;
   font-family: Verdana;
}
.normaltext
{
   font-size: medium;
}
.largetext
{
   font-size: large;
}

/* This is the white header area where the title, menu bars, and header boxes are. */
#headerarea
{
   background-image: url(images/bottomback.gif);
   border-bottom: 1px solid #242424;
}
/* This is the main area of the forum, the part that's gray. */
#bodyarea
{
   background-color: #0D0D0D;
}
/* And this is the bottom, where the copyright is, etc. */
#footerarea
{
   color: black;
   background-image: url(images/bottomback.gif);
   border-top: 1px solid #333333;
}

/* This is for the special header boxes on the top (user info, key stats, news box.) */
.headertitles
{
   background-color: #171717;
   
}
.headerbodies
{
   border: 1px solid #5B5B5B;
   background-color: #232323;
   background-repeat: repeat-x;
   
}


[nin97]

i should probably also add a link to the site lol

http://www.vancouvermustangs.com/yabbse/index.php [nofollow]

[xenovanis]

Your theme is based on the Classic Theme. The backgroundcolors are hardcoded in index.template.php.

[nin97]

Your theme is based on the Classic Theme. The backgroundcolors are hardcoded in index.template.php.

how do i change them?

can i just edit the php file?

TIA

[xenovanis]

Yes, open the file Themes/classic/index.template.php and search for

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style="background-color:

(3 times)

Replace the defined color with the color of your choice.

How do I modify files?

[nin97]

found it!

thanks for pointing me in the right direction, much appreciated! i've been busting my brain over this for a couple hours now ahhaha easiest thing ever