Change of color for headarea???

[jules-mids]

Hi there, thank goodness I have found this forum!

I am trying to make simple mods to a custom theme and have got everything changed except one thing that I have spent ages on trying different combinations! 


I want to change the background color of the ID=Headarea  and whilst I did managed to do it, it then lost the padding codes .....

Here is the line I have isolated as the one to change:

<div id="headerarea" style="padding: 12px 30px 4px 30px;', $context['browser']['needs_size_fix'] && !$context['browser']['is_ie6'] ? ' width: 100%;' : '', '">';


In what format and where do I include the bgcolor="#667899"   

I have tried everything and am now resorting to asking the experts ;-)

[TheMaTrIx]

You should change colors in the css files, not hardcode them in your templates.

[jules-mids]

Matrix,

I have looked in the CSS file and can find no tag that relates to the DIV Headarea section so can not change it there.  I know it must be picking up the bg color of this area from somewhere as I have already changed the bgcolor via CSS and it's not using that.

I have noted some areas of the index-template have tables etc that have the colors hardcoded and not picked up via CSS.

I know the format of html and perl but am completely new to PHP syntax so wondered how I include the bgcolor tag within the php line shown above.