Changing a color background to transparent

[lilacsinrain]

I have tried 5 different themes, but when I try to change the background image, it only shows the default color of that theme.  I can change the header to the image I want, but nothing else.  I haven't found a way to change the color to transparent, and need idiot-proof instructions for that.  I tried 6 different tutorials, but the only advanced code I'm seeing is for the specific color code, not the entire layout code. Any help would be so appreciated, thanks.

Comments

[matgb]

How are you changing the background image, and where?

Many themes have a built in way of doing that, if that's not working, it's a bug we need to fix.

But if you're trying to put the code in yourself, then the problem could be the way CSS works.

Essentially, if you tell the setup to make an image the background for the whole page, but then the theme developer told it to make colourX the background colour of lots of different bits of the page, then it will do both, but the bits will have their background override the main page, which is how it's supposed to work.

Essentially, you need to make sure your image is being applied instead of the theme instructions, but wihtout knowing what you've tried, and what themes you've tried, it's impossible to give details.

(and it appears we need to write much better how-tos on background images and stuff, to me doing it is so simple, but I've been watching the themes develop since before there were any themes so it's hard to figure out what isn't clear to new people)

[baggyeyes]

Which background element do you want to change? The body, entry, header...?