change the background of the body

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annelies
Member

Hi there, if feel like a dummy. But I want to change the background of the body to an image. Now I am wondering where I should do this. I tried all different things in default.css but that doesn't work.

thank you for helping!

Posted 2 years ago #
d_rec
Member

Try something like this in your Childtheme: style.css -

body{ background:url(../images/your_background.png) repeat-x;}

Posted 2 years ago #
waxpop
Member
Hi, I'm also looking to do the same thing, which would seem pretty simple, but my background image is not showing up. I have a stylesheet set up in my child theme and the code looks like this:
```
body{
	background:url(../images/body_bg.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center top;
	background-color: #281F09;}
```
I have a folder within my child theme folder called images and a jpg called body_bg.jpg inside that. What am I doing wrong? The background color is showing up, just not the background image.
Posted 2 years ago #
helgatheviking
Moderator
you are doing the relative paths wrong. if you are working in your style.css file and you have an images folder in the same directory like so:

CHILD THEME FOLDER
IMAGES FOLDER
functions.php
style.css

then you'd use
```
body{ 	background:url(images/body_bg.jpg);  }
```
Posted 2 years ago #
waxpop
Member

Thanks, that did it! Duh! :)

Posted 2 years ago #

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