Solid color background in sidepanel widgets.

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June 6, 2014 at 12:41 pm #12583
jdb
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Can someone help me with getting the backgrounds to my sidepanel widgets to be a solid color instead of transparent.

I am using a background image and it’s not working too well with the text colors for the categories widget and recent posts widget.

Both making each widget background a certain color (Epik’s light blue or white would both be nice) or making the whole sidebar background one of those solid colors would be fantastic.

Many thanks in advance.
June 6, 2014 at 10:23 pm #12588
Eric
Customer
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June 7, 2014 at 5:41 pm #12593
jdb
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June 10, 2014 at 10:13 pm #12605
jdb
Customer
Is having a solid background in a sidebar widget or the entire sidebar1 itself that difficult?
Issue can be seen here: http://triumphattrading.com/blog/

Thank you in advance again to anyone who can help.
June 11, 2014 at 12:07 pm #12617
Wes
Moderator
@jdb You can add the following code to your .sidebar –
```
.sidebar {
    background: #fff;
    padding: 20px;
}
```
I don’t know the exact line of your css since it looks like you’re using a plugin to minify your code, so if you’re unable to find it you can just add the code above in your css.

The background can be changed to whatever color you want. I added the padding so it will give you some space around the widgets so they aren’t on the edge.
June 13, 2014 at 8:02 am #12651
jdb
Customer
Thank you so much for your response, Wes.

I couldn’t find where to insert the code and I found where to turn off minify css so that I could ask again. Luckily when I revisited, it became really apparent and worked right away!

Thank you kindly again,

jdb

ps – I see you and other posters refer to code lines. I’m using editor built into the “Appearance” part of the WP dashboard. It doesn’t have the numbering. Is there any other editor so I can see the line values that you and others refer to?
June 14, 2014 at 9:37 am #12668
Wes
Moderator
Yes if you use an external editor like Espresso or Coda (for the Mac) or Notepad++ (for PC) then you can edit files through FTP and it will show the line numbers.
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