Background color question..

I can't for the life of me figure out how to add or change the background color on
any pages I create. There is nothing I can find in the inspector, such as Iweb has, for the entire page to have a certain color.
For example, if you try the "for sale," "lost and found" or "for rent" flyer templates, how do you change the background colors. I don't see the blue, green, or grey anywhere in the inspector. Is this not an option?
wade

wad,
I looked at the first one ("for sale", the one with the bicycle), and had no trouble changing the color of the large gray box. Select the box, click on the Graphics inspector, select Color Fill from the Fill menu, then click on the color swatch. Click on the little box of crayons on the right side of the color palette, then on the color you want.
Regarding the "for rent" flyer, do the same thing as mentioned able, except note that when you select the green box, little x's appear in the corners. This indicates that the object is locked. So before you can do anything else, click on Arrange > Unlock. Then follow the above steps.
"Lost and Found" works the same way as "for sale" above.
-Dennis

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<div class="c3"><a href="http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/">Mosquito Magnet</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="c6" border="0" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="c3"><a href="http://www.megacatch.com/">Mega-Catch</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="c6" border="0" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="c3"><a href="http://koolatrononline.stores.yahoo.net/mosquito-control.html">Koolatron</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="c6" border="0" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="273">
<div class="c3"><a href="http://www.mosquitocontroltrap.com/comparisons">Mosquito Trap Comparison Chart</a></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><br /></p>
<table width="126" border="20" align="center" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th class="c1" scope="col"><a href="mailto:[email protected]">E-mail Urefillit</a></th>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
<p class="c8"> </p>
<p class="c8"><span class="c9">Urefillit, LLC<br />
800 Shore Drive East<br />
Oldsmar, Florida 34677-4402</span></p>
<p class="c8"> </p>
<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a><br /></p>
<p> </p>
</th>
</tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[

//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Copy & Paste this code into a new, blank document. SaveAs index3.html. Feel free to adjust CSS colors and backgrounds as desired.   You'll find plenty of code comments to help you.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>U Refill It</title>
<meta name="description" content="Your source for mosquito magnet and mosquito killing machine replacement products: Octenol, Asian Tiger lure and Kaboom">



<style>
/**CSS Reset**/
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
    box-sizing: border-box;
img {
    vertical-align: baseline;
    display: block;
    max-width: 100%
/**layout**/
body {
    font-family: Segoe, "Segoe UI", "DejaVu Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, sans-serif;
    font-size: 100%;
    /**CSS gradient**/
/* Old browsers */
    background: rgb(180,221,180);
    /* FF3.6+ */
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(180,221,180,1) 0%, rgba(131,199,131,1) 17%, rgba(82,177,82,1) 33%, rgba(0,138,0,1) 67%, rgba(0,87,0,1) 83%, rgba(0,36,0,1) 100%);
    /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, rgba(180,221,180,1)), color-stop(17%, rgba(131,199,131,1)), color-stop(33%, rgba(82,177,82,1)), color-stop(67%, rgba(0,138,0,1)), color-stop(83%, rgba(0,87,0,1)), color-stop(100%, rgba(0,36,0,1)));
    /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(180,221,180,1) 0%, rgba(131,199,131,1) 17%, rgba(82,177,82,1) 33%, rgba(0,138,0,1) 67%, rgba(0,87,0,1) 83%, rgba(0,36,0,1) 100%);
    /* Opera 11.10+ */
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(180,221,180,1) 0%, rgba(131,199,131,1) 17%, rgba(82,177,82,1) 33%, rgba(0,138,0,1) 67%, rgba(0,87,0,1) 83%, rgba(0,36,0,1) 100%);
    /* IE10+ */
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(180,221,180,1) 0%, rgba(131,199,131,1) 17%, rgba(82,177,82,1) 33%, rgba(0,138,0,1) 67%, rgba(0,87,0,1) 83%, rgba(0,36,0,1) 100%);
    /* good browsers */
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(180,221,180,1) 0%, rgba(131,199,131,1) 17%, rgba(82,177,82,1) 33%, rgba(0,138,0,1) 67%, rgba(0,87,0,1) 83%, rgba(0,36,0,1) 100%);
/* older IE6-9 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#b4ddb4', endColorstr='#002400', GradientType=0 );
#wrapper {
    width: 75%;
    margin: 0 auto; /**with width, this is centered**/
    background: #FFC;
    border: 4px groove #F30;
    border-radius: 20px;
header, footer {
    color: #F30;
    text-align: center;
    font-family: Cambria, "Hoefler Text", "Liberation Serif", Times, "Times New Roman", serif;
header img {
    border-radius: 15px 15px 0 0;
    width: 100%
/**top menu**/
nav {
    width: 90%;
    margin: 25px auto;
nav li {
    list-style: none;
    font-weight: bold;
    display: inline;
/**menu link styles**/
nav li a {
    display: inline-block;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: green;
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: 1.15em;
    border: 2px outset green;
/**menu links on mouse over**/
nav li a:hover, nav li a:active, nav li a:focus { background: gold }
/**main content**/
article { padding: 2% }
figure img {
    margin: 0 auto;
    border: 3px solid #FFF;
    border-radius: 10px;
    box-shadow: 1px 2px 5px #333;
/**typography**/
header h1 {
    font-size: 55px;
    text-shadow: 2px 3px 3px #666;
header h2 {
    font-size: 18px;
    font-style: oblique
h3 { margin-top: 20px; }
p {
    margin-bottom: 18px;
    font-size: 18px;
    color: #000;
figcaption {
    text-align: center;
    font-style: oblique;
    margin-bottom: 18px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<header>
<img src="http://www.urefillit.com/images/webpagepicture.jpg" alt="U Refill It banner">

<h1>U Refill It</h1>
<h2>Your source for mosquito magnet and mosquito killing machine replacement products: Octenol, Asian Tiger lure and Kaboom.</h2>
</header>

<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Menu1</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu2</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu3</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu4</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu5</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Menu6</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>

<article>
<h3>Article Heading 3</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi! Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. Pellentesque aliquet aliquet ligula, et sagittis justo auctor varius. Quisque varius scelerisque nunc eget rhoncus. Aenean tristique enim ut ante dignissim. </p>
<figure>

<img src="http://placehold.it/500x325" alt="figure">
<figcaption> Figure Caption </figcaption>
</figure>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi! Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. Pellentesque aliquet aliquet ligula, et sagittis justo auctor varius. Quisque varius scelerisque nunc eget rhoncus. Aenean tristique enim ut ante dignissim. </p>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris vitae libero lacus, vel hendrerit nisi! Maecenas quis velit nisl, volutpat viverra felis. Vestibulum luctus mauris sed sem dapibus luctus. Pellentesque aliquet aliquet ligula, et sagittis justo auctor varius. Quisque varius scelerisque nunc eget rhoncus. Aenean tristique enim ut ante dignissim. </p>
</article>

<footer>
<small>© 2014 Your Site Name. All Rights Reserved</small> </footer>
 </div>
</body>
</html>
Nancy O.

When converting word doc to pdf, my images with text only show the background color of the text box.

I have a word doc that I am trying to conver to pdf. I have jpegs with text boxes on top of them on one page. It looks great on the screen but after I convert to pdf, the text boxes only have half the text, the first half of the text box is just white - the background color. If I take the background color out of the text box, the text converts over fine but I need the background color.
I have tried many things here on the print settings, standard, high quality print, unchecking the compression on the images. Any help?

Thank you for your posting. These forums are specific to the
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cover the Acrobat family of desktop products. Please visit the
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How to set background color for a JFrame

Hi,
i am new to swing programming. I have created a JFrame called framehelp and i placed some labels in the frame.
I have set the background color as yellow for the frame ie by setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 204));
But after compiling the program i am still getting the background color of frame as gray.
How can i change the background color of frame as lightish yellow.
I have used NETBEANS to generate this code and i am posting the code..
Kindly help me
Thanks in adavance
public class framehelp extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    /** Creates new form framehelp */
    public framehelp() {
        initComponents();
    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
    private void initComponents() {
        jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel2 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel3 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel4 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel5 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel6 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel8 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel9 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel10 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel11 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel12 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel13 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel7 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel14 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel15 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel16 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel17 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel18 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel19 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel20 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel21 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel22 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel23 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel24 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel25 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel26 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel27 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel28 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel29 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel30 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel31 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel32 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel33 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        getContentPane().setLayout(null);
        setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 204));
        setForeground(new java.awt.Color(204, 204, 204));
        addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter() {
            public void windowClosing(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
                exitForm(evt);
        jLabel1.setText("The CAME framework software measurement process evaluation is used to determine the Level of measurement in the ITarea. This measurementprocess evaluation is ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel1);
        jLabel1.setBounds(40, 50, 41, 16);
        jLabel2.setText("performed individually for software coomponents ie SoftwareProduct, SoftwareProcess and SoftwareResource.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel2);
        jLabel2.setBounds(40, 70, 41, 16);
        jLabel3.setText("Below we describe the steps which will guide through the measurement process evaluation. There are two types of evaluation considerd here, General evaluation");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel3);
        jLabel3.setBounds(40, 100, 913, 16);
        jLabel4.setText("and Evaluation with respect to a standard. The measurement intensions considerd by varoius measurement standards will be used in our tool based method. ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel4);
        jLabel4.setBounds(40, 120, 893, 16);
        jLabel5.setText("Information about the measurement standards can be found at     www.iso.org ,    www.ieee.org.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel5);
        jLabel5.setBounds(40, 140, 542, 16);
        jLabel6.setText("Steps to calculate the MetricsLevel");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel6);
        jLabel6.setBounds(40, 190, 199, 16);
        jLabel8.setText("2 ) The opened frame consists of several metrics and measures, evaluation level buttons, result textfields and selection choice lists. To calculate");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel8);
        jLabel8.setBounds(70, 240, 41, 16);
        jLabel9.setText("general Metricslevel without any standard, select general from Measurement standard choice list. then select Both from scaleType choice list and finally select metrics ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel9);
        jLabel9.setBounds(90, 260, 949, 16);
        jLabel10.setText(" and measures from the frame and press MetricsLevel Button. The metricslevel for the selected metrics will be displayed in textfield1.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel10);
        jLabel10.setBounds(90, 280, 756, 16);
        jLabel11.setText("3 ) To determine MetricsLevel with respect to a standard select a standard from MeasurementStandard choice list, select Both from ScaleType choice list and finally ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel11);
        jLabel11.setBounds(70, 300, 933, 16);
        jLabel12.setText("select darkened metrics and measures and press MetricsLevel Button. The Metrics Level for the selected Metrics and standard will be diplayed in textfield1.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel12);
        jLabel12.setBounds(90, 320, 883, 16);
        jLabel13.setText("4 ) Repeat steps 1 2, 3 for ProcessMeasurementEvaluation and ResourceMeasurementEvaluation menu items from the select menu.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel13);
        jLabel13.setBounds(70, 340, 751, 16);
        jLabel7.setText("1 ) Select ProductMeasurementEvaluation menu item from the select menu,a frame called CAME framework software product measurement evaluation will be opened. ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel7);
        jLabel7.setBounds(70, 220, 946, 16);
        jLabel14.setText("Steps to calculate MeasurementLevel");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel14);
        jLabel14.setBounds(50, 390, 214, 16);
        jLabel15.setText("1 ) Select ProductMeasurementEvaluation menu item from the select menu,a frame called CAME framework software product measurement evaluation will be opened.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel15);
        jLabel15.setBounds(80, 420, 943, 16);
        jLabel16.setText("2 ) The opened frame consists of several metrics and measures, evaluation level buttons, result textfields and selection choice lists. To calculate");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel16);
        jLabel16.setBounds(80, 450, 822, 16);
        jLabel17.setText("general Measurementlevel without any standard, select general from Measurement standard choice list. then select Quantitative measures from scaleType choice list ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel17);
        jLabel17.setBounds(100, 470, 943, 16);
        jLabel18.setText("and finally select metrics and measures from the frame and press MeasurementLevel Button. The MeasurementLevel for the selected metrics will be displayed in textfield2.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel18);
        jLabel18.setBounds(100, 490, 973, 20);
        jLabel19.setText("3 ) To determine MeasurementLevel with respect to a standard select a standard from MeasurementStandard choice list, select Quantitative measures from ScaleType choice list");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel19);
        jLabel19.setBounds(80, 510, 1009, 16);
        jLabel20.setText("and finally select darkened metrics and measures and press MeasurementLevel Button. The MeasurementLevel will be diplayed in textfield2.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel20);
        jLabel20.setBounds(100, 530, 799, 16);
        jLabel21.setText("4 )Repeat steps 1 2, 3 for ProcessMeasurementEvaluation and ResourceMeasurementEvaluation menu items from the select menu.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel21);
        jLabel21.setBounds(80, 550, 748, 16);
        jLabel22.setText("Steps to calculate MeasurementProcessLevel");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel22);
        jLabel22.setBounds(50, 600, 262, 16);
        jLabel23.setText("1 ) Select ProductMeasurementEvaluation menu item from the select menu,a frame called CAME framework software product measurement evaluation will be opened.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel23);
        jLabel23.setBounds(80, 630, 943, 16);
        jLabel24.setText("2 )The opened frame consists of several metrics and measures, evaluation level buttons, result textfields and selection choice lists. To calculate");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel24);
        jLabel24.setBounds(80, 650, 819, 16);
        jLabel25.setText("general MeasurementProcesslevel without any standard, select general from Measurement standard choice list. then select Quantitative measures from scaleType ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel25);
        jLabel25.setBounds(100, 670, 930, 16);
        jLabel26.setText("choice list, enter migrated metrics if any in textfield below migrated metrics label and finally select metrics measures from the frame and press ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel26);
        jLabel26.setBounds(100, 690, 818, 16);
        jLabel27.setText("MeasurementProcessLevel Button. The MeasurementProcessLevel for the selected metrics will be displayed in textfield3.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel27);
        jLabel27.setBounds(100, 710, 691, 16);
        jLabel28.setText("3 ) To determine MeasurementProcessLevel with respect to a standard select a standard from MeasurementStandard choice list, select Quantitative measures from ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel28);
        jLabel28.setBounds(80, 740, 937, 16);
        jLabel29.setText("from ScaleType choice list, enter migrated metrics if any in textfield below migrated metrics and finally select darkened metrics and measures and press ");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel29);
        jLabel29.setBounds(100, 760, 873, 16);
        jLabel30.setText("MeasurementProcessLevel Button. The MeasurementprocessLevel for the selected metrics will be displayed in textfield3");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel30);
        jLabel30.setBounds(100, 780, 687, 16);
        jLabel31.setText("4 ) Repeat steps 1,2,3 for ProcessMeasurementEvaluation and ResourceMeasurementEvaluation menuitems.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel31);
        jLabel31.setBounds(80, 800, 618, 16);
        jLabel32.setText("Steps to calculate MeasuredSoftwareProcessLevl");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel32);
        jLabel32.setBounds(60, 830, 285, 16);
        jLabel33.setText("1 ) Follow the same steps as MetricsLevel calcualtion but select metrics and measures covered by CAME Tools only.");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel33);
        jLabel33.setBounds(90, 860, 657, 16);
        java.awt.Dimension screenSize = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        setBounds((screenSize.width-1100)/2, (screenSize.height-940)/2, 1100, 940);
    /** Exit the Application */
    private void exitForm(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {
        System.exit(0);
     * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        new framehelp().show();
    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel10;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel11;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel12;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel13;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel14;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel15;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel16;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel17;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel18;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel19;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel2;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel20;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel21;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel22;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel23;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel24;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel25;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel26;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel27;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel28;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel29;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel3;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel30;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel31;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel32;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel33;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel4;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel5;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel6;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel7;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel8;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel9;
    // End of variables declaration
}

1. When you post code, post a minimal example. Did we have to scroll through
all those bloody labels.
2. Can't say much for the quality of code NetBeans generates.
3. To answer your question (sorry, I don't have an autographed copy of the photo):
import java.awt.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
        final JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        Container cp = f.getContentPane();
        cp.setBackground(new Color(0xff, 0xff, 0xee));
        cp.add(new JLabel("set the color on the content pane, not the frame"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        URL url = new URL("http://today.java.net/jag/bio/JagHeadshot-small.jpg");
        cp.add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(url)));
        f.pack();
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                f.setVisible(true);
}

How to retrieve default background color for JPanels or other containers?

Hi everybody, I've written a small class extending the default JTextArea, intended to provide the functionality of a small, descriptive item in JPanels.
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class JInfoTextArea extends JTextArea{
     public JInfoTextArea(String text){
          super(text);
          setEditable(false);
          setFont(Font.decode("SansSerif"));
          setFocusable(false);
          setLineWrap(true);
          setWrapStyleWord(true);
//          setBackground(contentPane.getBackground());
          setAlignmentX(Component.LEFT_ALIGNMENT);
          setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5,5,5,5));
}As you can see, there formerly used to be a third parameter, namely contentPane, which contained a reference to the parent Container in order to set the TextArea's background color appropriately for transparency.
Now, is there ANY way to retrieve the background color without either passing a dedicated parameter or doing something like
setBackground((new JPanel()).getBackground());Any help is greatly appreciated!
Yours, Stefanie

To answer your original question the UIManager contains properties of the various components. In case your interested the following program has a fancy GUI display of all the components:
http://www.discoverteenergy.com/files/ShowUIDefaults.java

Div Color Questions

Alright, I'm brand new to CSS and to Dreamweaver so please be easy on me if this is a completely idiotic question . I have just started some code for a site I'm working on. I have it almost set up how I want it minus the bells and whistles. My only issue is I can't get my "left" and "right" div background colors to change. I've tried playing with the code, I've tried playing with the dreamweaver features, but there's no changes. I was hoping somebody could give me a hand? I'm sure once I see what I'm doing wrong it will be a d'oh moment. I have CSS Rules made for each section and have tried to click into it and change the background color, but nothing updates. The font, etc won't change either. What the heck am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any assistance! The section of code is below:
<body>
<div id="shadow">
<div id="Wrapper">
    <div id="Banner">
      <blockquote><a href="index.html"><img src="images/BDBBanner.gif" alt="Bully Dog Bakery Banner" width="800" height="200" /></a></blockquote>
    </div>
    <div id="Navigation">Home | About Us | Nutrition | Products | Specials | Our Customers | Contact</div>
<div id="bodyArea">
<div id="left">
    <p>Info Here</p>
</div>
<div id="right"><p>News and Pictures will go here.</p></div>
    </div>
    <div id="footer"><p>Copyright info will go here</p></div>
</div>
</div>
</body>

I can't see where in YOUR css that light green colour is coming from?
That's why I'm suggesting it may be Tripod taking over your page a bit. Unfortunately you pay a price for FREE web hosting and in the case of Tripod they cram your page with 'unwanted' adverts. The light green is behind the advert which appears at the foot of the page.
If I take just your html and css then the page works ok to the point whereby you can see the left and right column colors.
If you haven't introduced the light green color into your page then someone else did and that someone else is Tripod.

Right way to change datagrid row, column, cells background colors in code-behind?

Hi all,
I have a winform program that I'm upgrading to wpf (I'm new to wpf). The wpf code for the function (SetdataGridBackgroundColors()) is below with the winform code commented out so I can fix it. I have a datagrid with a Cornsilk background color alteranating
with LightGreen depending on the content of datetime cell. If the day portion of the datetime is different then the color changes from one to the other. I used a colorIndex variable because at the end of the month it could go from 31 to 1 and that would
not work if I use the day directly.
I tried this line to change the background color:
optionsDataDatagrid.RowBackground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Cornsilk);
this works but it changes every row. I found this other stuff:
DataGridRow currentRowColor = optionsDataDatagrid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(i) as DataGridRow;
//DataGridRow currentRowColor = optionsDataDatagrid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(optionsDataDatagrid.Items[i]) as DataGridRow;
currentRowColor.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Cornsilk);
Either ContainerFromIndex or ContainerFromItem throw an exception because currentRowColor is null. I looked at optionsDataDatagrid.Items[i] and is not null. Then I read that using ItemContainerGenerator is not a good idea.
BTW I'm calling SetdataGridBackgroundColors() after datagrid is been filled with data.
So... what is the proper way to set each row, column or cell background color in wpf?
Thanks
private void SetdataGridBackgroundColors()
optionRowData rowData = new optionRowData();
if (optionsDataDatagrid.Items.Count == 0)
return;
int colorIndex = 1;
DateTime savedDate, currentRowDate;
rowData = optionsDataDatagrid.Items[0] as optionRowData;
savedDate = rowData.col_datetime.Date; //only compare the date not the time
for (int i = 0; i < optionsDataDatagrid.Items.Count; i++)
//currentRowDate = Convert.ToDateTime(optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].Cells[3].Value); //winform code
//currentRowDate = currentRowDate.Date; //winform code
rowData = optionsDataDatagrid.Items[i] as optionRowData;
currentRowDate = rowData.col_datetime.Date;
if (currentRowDate != savedDate)
colorIndex++;
savedDate = currentRowDate;
if (colorIndex % 2 == 0)
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.Cornsilk;
//------------------- testing new code --------------begin
optionsDataDatagrid.RowBackground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Cornsilk); //this changes all rows
//DataGridRow currentRowColor = optionsDataDatagrid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(i) as DataGridRow;
//DataGridRow currentRowColor = optionsDataDatagrid.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(optionsDataDatagrid.Items[i]) as DataGridRow;
//currentRowColor.Background = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Cornsilk);
//------------------- testing new code --------------end
//optionsDataDatagrid.Columns[4].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.DarkSalmon;
//optionsDataDatagrid.Columns[5].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.Aquamarine;
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].Cells[4].Style.ApplyStyle(optionsDataDataGridView.Columns[4].DefaultCellStyle);
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].Cells[5].Style.ApplyStyle(optionsDataDataGridView.Columns[5].DefaultCellStyle);
else
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.LightGreen;
//------------------- testing new code --------------begin
optionsDataDatagrid.RowBackground = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.LightGreen); //this has no effect
//------------------- testing new code --------------end
//optionsDataDatagrid.Columns[4].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.Coral;
//optionsDataDatagrid.Columns[5].DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.LimeGreen;
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].Cells[4].Style.ApplyStyle(optionsDataDataGridView.Columns[4].DefaultCellStyle);
//optionsDataDatagrid.Rows[i].Cells[5].Style.ApplyStyle(optionsDataDataGridView.Columns[5].DefaultCellStyle);

I (also) strongly recommend mvvm.
Setting values is a particularly bad idea in this case.
I don't mean to be rude but your explanation of the requirement is kind of vague.
I would bind solidcolourbrushes.
Set the properties based on whatever your logic is within the viewmodel.
You can switch out what each of the brushes holds when the user clicks wherever.
So you use a highlightbrush when something or other is true.
That highlightbrush is set to a blue brush when the user clicks left and a red brush when they click right.
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