Comments on: How To Add A Background To Cutline

By: meditationguru

meditationguru — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:32:20 +0000

i’ll try changing background today. does it work for 2.2 cutline theme?

By: Jimm

Jimm — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:27:09 +0000

See steps to make it work at this site

By: Online Shopping Centre

Online Shopping Centre — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:22:34 +0000

Thats great, can’t believe its that simple. Many thanks for sharing it with the wordpress community.

By: cp

cp — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:04:34 +0000

I was having issues with the wrap, it seemed as though the body’s bg color was overriding anything I did in regards to wrapping the header and footer.

The quickest way to do this is just put background: #5f5f5f; replacing 5f5f5f with your color of choice in your stylesheet inside container, masthead, header_img, and footer sections.

Like so:

#container { width: 1200px; background: #acb4b8; margin: 0px auto 0 auto; }

#content_box { width: 1200x; background:#acb4b8; othercode would be here }

This was done in the cutline theme. I want to add, in case the author read this, great theme. Consider adding the code to wrap the content but comment it out maybe. Would of saved a css noob like me 6 hours of reading and trial/error.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:33:10 +0000

The link to Cutline 1.1 Blue is not work

By: moserw

moserw — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:24:18 +0000

Really love the simple interface. Great for blogs where content needs to be highlighted. Thanks for sharing.

By: purpley

purpley — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:14:26 +0000

It took me forever. But I took Kerry’s instructions. I made the new container “pagebody” the same width as the header. I entered it right AFTER the container division in the header, and closed it at the end of header.

Right after that, I entered another pagebody division, and closed it in the footer file.

That seems to work, and leaves the whitespace in the text. However, i have a break between the header and the container. But I can’t spend anymore time figuring out how to get rid of it. If anyone knows, let me know!

By: purpley

purpley — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:35:19 +0000

I can’t seem to figure it out either! If I add a new container, the content all shifts to the left and the background still doesn’t show.

And where is this cutline blue – he is referring to? It would be so easy to just see how that one works.

By: teddy

teddy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:17:17 +0000

what lines are you adding the container in? I cannoot get this to work.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:08:49 +0000

Running WP 2.5 + Cutline 2.1 – I don’t know a lick of CSS, and tried for a while to figure out this background stuff.

In header.php, above I defined a new container and closed it out all the way at the bottom of the file.

In footer.php, above I defined the same container and closed it out right above

Then, in style.css, below /*—:[ core layout elements ]:—*/ I defined the style for my new container:

#pagebody {width: 896px; padding: 20px; background: #FFF; margin: 20px auto 10px auto; text-align: center; }

Obviously the color for this container needs to be different than the color specified at the top of style.css under: body { background: #333333; }

I’m posting this here for the CSS illiterate like myself.