content area background color?

How can I change the background color of the content area from white to black?

Add that in head section of index.php of template just before </head> in style block , because it that way that rules have highest priority and you will be sure that they take effect:

<style type="text/css" >
.wrapper, wrapper > div, wrapper > div > div
{
background-color:black;
}
</style>

Hi I would like to make the text area semi-transparent. I tried to follow your suggestion given for changing the background colour by using the following in the template index.php file:

<style type="text/css">
.carouselarticle{
background-color:transparent;
}

.wrapper, wrapper > div, wrapper > div > div
{
background-color:transparent;
}
</style>

but nothing was changed. The background colour for the text area is still white. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Try:

<style type="text/css">
.carouselarticle textarea{
background-color:transparent;
}
...


BTW. textarea just can not be transparent on some browsers.

Thank you for the reply. I actually found out how to do it. In the layout.css I changed the code to "background-colour:transparent" and it worked. Now I just have to find a way to make it semi-transparent.

Try some semi-transparent .png of .gif as background.