background color for content and widget areas

[stjohn 0]

Is it possible to change the background color, or add borders, to the widgets and content areas on the site. Kind of like the pagelines forum. Exactly this page if you scroll down.

[Rob 547]

Hello, Are you familiar with CSS? Essentially, I believe you can do this with some CSS. This forum's system creates the borders here via CSS and the shading of various elements of the Beeb's site is also set with CSS. If you use Firefox, you can get [url="http://www.getfirebug.com"]Firebug for Firefox[/url], a great tool for inspecting various elements, providing the CSS that applies to it. You'd just copy, modify and paste it into the Custom Code area in CSS Rules. If you prefer Chrome, I believe that has a built in element inspection tool, though I've never used it.

[alanbr82 0]

There is a firebug lite plugin for Chrome in the Chrome store.

[Rob 547]

Which ever you are most comfortable with should do. Essentially, you need to inspect the elements you wish to change then apply some simple CSS for a border. This should give you some idea of the options for borders: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_border.asp