Re: Changing the background
 

I have the same problem, i tried to change the main.css

html, body {
background-color: blue;

but, it did not change anything...

Re: Changing the background
 

We're currently slowly and painfully reconstructing our store in 4.23. Now in the final stages and looking at the CSS.

I had the same problem with html,body in main.css - it doesn't reflect any changes on the screen background. The background URL does work in that tag, we have used:

html,body {
height: 100%;
background-color: #ffffff;
background: url(images/bg.gif) repeat;

and that does work, so I guess a workaround would be to create a small GIF in the colour of your choice.

The main body of the text however seems to be set to transparent, so we added the background color to this tag:

#page-container {
min-height: 100%;
position: relative;
background-color: #ffffff;

There must be an easier way to influence the display, but we need a guru to point the way. Anyone ??

Re: Changing the background
 

no one can solve this?

Re: Changing the background
 

That is the easiest way. You have to change the CSS.
It's still the same. Find the body and html tags that are controlling the site and change teh background tag accordingly.

Re: Changing the background
 

What template are you people using that you say have issues?
Like ash says shouldn't be an issue:

Is they a way you troubled people can post url or pm to us to look at

Have mine set like this: Based on light and lucid (Have custom style though and have it centred to 960px)
html,body {
height: 100%;
background:#F2F5F7;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
min-width: 780px;
}

/* page layout */
#content-container {
clear: both;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
width: 960px;
padding-bottom: 39px;
margin-top: 140px;
background-color: #ffffff;
border-left: 1px solid #E8E8E8; border-right: 1px solid #E8E8E8;
}

Silly question I know, but have saved after edits?