Changing background colour of article

[John Oxlade]

In the official docs (http://docs.joomla.org/Put_a_background ... an_article) the code is given to change the colour behind an article. Actually, the

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<div style="background-color: #dddddd">

changes the colour behind the TEXT. Is it possible to change the colour of the whole article inside the border?
I have generated an Artisteer 3 template but would like to be able to apply a colour to specific articles on a page (so I can't have multiple templates as that'd apply to the entire page).
Is this possible?
Thanks,
John

[MrCodexCY]

Hello mate,

You need to check which div covers the whole field you would like to add a background. You can use firebug to check that, it will help you really much with that, and in the future.

~Artemis

[John Oxlade]

Trying that now. It is not that straightforward. If you have a moment and don't mind, can you check: http://www.nzholistichealth.co.nz/index ... pip-oxlade and tell me what the div is around the article. I will then use Firebug to find the same thing so I know in future.
Thanks,
John

[John Oxlade]

I just tried art-post-body and it only changes the colour behind the text not right up to the border. Not sure if this is even possible to fix.

[John Oxlade]

I sort-of fixed this. Adding:

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<div class="art-post-body" style="background-color: #f8daff;">

to the top of the article, and remembering to add:

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</div>

at the end puts a colourd background around most of the article - but I couldn't figure out how to fill the whole article with colour.
The other catch doing it this way is you cannot have a READMORE in the article otherwise the

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</div>

doesn't get processed and the border of the article goes on the fritz.