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My site was all white, but now I'm trying to change the colors and I'm running into some trouble. I've reset everything until I find my answer. Anyway, I changed the background of the body to brown, but I want to leave all of the blank area inside of the 800px wide wrapper at white. I have two columns, the main content section and a left module. I manually changed both to white, but on pages where one extends further down than the other, the shorter one will only be white until it reaches the end of its content and then it will display the same color as the body....brown. I hope that makes sense. Is there a way to make the modules just automatically extend to the footer module? That way, if the main content module is long, the left module will automatically extend itself rather than allowing the white background to run out halfway down the page.