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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Color styling the column class backgrounds

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Tagged: background color, column classes

  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 8 months ago by jtdatawork.
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  • September 23, 2013 at 5:47 pm #63909
    jtdatawork
    Member

    Is there a way to make each column background a different color? I've placed a green background in the style sheet for the 1/3 column class, but would like the other two columns to be different colors. Any tips on how to designate column 2 and three and then style them would be greatly appreciated (and gets you a free beer if you're ever in town) 🙂

    Thank you!

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    JT Dataworks Web design and SEO

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    September 23, 2013 at 7:46 pm #63914
    Brian Bourn
    Member

    The easiest way would be to just add additional CSS classes to column classes HTML

    EX:

    <div class="one-third first color-one">CONTENT</div>
    
    <div class="one-third color-two">CONTENT</div>
    
    <div class="one-third color-three">CONTENT</div>
    
    //CSS
    
    .color-one {
     background-color: #000
    }
    
    .color-two {
     background-color: #555
    }
    
    .color-three {
     background-color: #ddd
    }

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    September 24, 2013 at 11:46 am #63989
    jtdatawork
    Member

    Brilliant! It looks great and so easy! Thank you so much!

    Judy


    JT Dataworks Web design and SEO

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