You need a wrapper div around your content area, then you would use css to apply a solid white background to that wrapper div. I'm not sure exactly how to explain that better - it's pretty much just basic html/css but I'm not sure how comfortable you are with that.

There may already be a wrapper div in your theme that you just need to style, you can use firebug in firefox to inspect the layout and find out if there is a div or not.

Hi hereNT,

Thanks. I have firebug but it is not helping since I don't know what look for. Is there a way you can explain it easier. Maybe you can point what div to look for and what to modify, similar which part of main.css has to be modified.

And yes I don't know anything about html and css that's why I keep buying add-ons to solve my problems like your backstretch to put background for site


Regards,

Ale

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Every theme is different, I would need the URL to your site in order to tell you what div and where in your main.css file.

Hi,

I use plain yogurt,http://biobeauty.aseanexhibition.com/....

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Aleamio

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It looks like you want to update the #page rule on line 15 of main.css. Add the following:



That should do what you need.

Hi,

Below is line 15 with your code inserted:

#page{ width:800px; margin:auto; text-align:left: background-color: #FFF; }

It did not work. Any other ideas?

Regards,

Ale

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When I look at your site that line is not modified in main.css. Are you sure that you uploaded it properly?

It might be related to the cache if css gets cached, I can't remember if it does or not, if that theme is processed then I think the processed css is cached. You may need to empty your cache.

I don't know if concrete5 is uploaded correctly as I was having an issue of having empty default folders and many other folders after several attempts of installation of concrete5 (latest version).

I did a workaround to force the installation of concrete5 with non-empty folders by:

1. Install concrete5 in the subdomaain.
2. Since themes/default folder is empty, I manually copied from the installation of the main domain and posted in the subdomain's themese/default.
3. I reinstalled concrete5 to the sub-domain where the installation overwrote the old instal.
4. The installation showed a properly filled themes/default folder and other folders.

However, when I checked my dashboard/pages and themes I had another copy of Plain Yogurt waiting to be installed. So maybe you are write, concrete5 might not have installed properly.

However, the main css workd as I can can change many aspects of the site modifying the main css

In your main.css you have : after textalign: left. This should be a semicolon. The css isn't reading the next line because it doesn't see and end to the text-align property.

Thanks. It worked but with one problem -- the white background runs from top to bottom.

See:
http://biobeauty.aseanexhibition.com/...

Yeah, that div runs the full length of the window. You could put another div around the content area and then style that. The header has a lot of empty space at the top of that that won't go away unless you make other adjustments to your css anyway, there's probably more you need to do to get it looking like you'd like it to.

This is really getting beyond support for backstretch - the forums will probably get you better help on modifying a theme. I could modify the theme for you at my hourly rate if you give me FTP access to your server. I charge 75 dollars an hour and think this would take about 15 minutes.

Hi hereNT,

Thanks. Yes it's going out of your area.

I will post it in the community. Thanks again.

I going to sleep it is 3.30am here in Thailand.

Regards,

aleamio

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Good luck with it. Have a good night.

Hello,

Love the addon. Very easy to use! My issue is trying to keep the page body white as well. It is driving me crazy trying to find out where to fix this in css. Can you help?

The site:http://monkeytailsblanks.com

The text should sit on the a white background in the page body.http://monkeytailsblanks.com/about-us/...

user: guest
pass: guestview

The CSS that came with this theme is very messy and hard it is difficult to locate things. If you can help that would be greatly appreciated.

-Tommy

You will have to adjust the CSS in your design for that. It looks like the div with id #content has no background defined, so the background shows through.

From looking at your html / css, it seems like it's going to be a bit tricky to get that adjusted. You can't really just add a white background to the css styles there, because the content is right up to the edge on the left, and there's a gap on the top and the bottom. So it will probably mean that you have to make markup changes as well as CSS changes.

I can't tell you exactly what needs to change, or how it will affect things with the Goodsoil theme that you are using. But, it's not really an issue with Backstretch, but an issue with the theme. You should contact ThemeGoodness and ask them what needs to be modified in their theme to place a solid background in that area. They would know much better how to adjust it.

Hi,

Thanks so much for the reply. I know it is not your add on backstretch causing this. :) Just looking for pointers to make it right.

I have contacted them and await.