Container Div BG Color

**dillankid** · 01-12-2009, 07:34 PM

I have a div set up with 3 other divs inside of it, and the background color on the container div won't work. The color is supposed to be a dark blue and is showing correctly in Dreamweaver, but when I test it in the browsers (FF, IE) it shows as white (the body bg color.)

This is a modified template, so I may be looking over something the author did, or it could be my error. Either way, I need some help.

Here is the test page:
http://www.freewebs.com/jessicahaggy.../Test_new.html

And here is the code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<style type="text/css">
html,body{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
body{
font: 76% arial,sans-serif;
text-align:center;
}
p{
margin:0 10px 10px;
}
a{
display:block;
padding:10px;
}
div#header h1{
	height:80px;
	line-height:80px;
	margin:0;
	padding-left:10px;
}
div#header{
background-color: #1e6490;
}
div#container{
	text-align:left;
	background-color: dff4f7;
	width:748px;
	margin:0 auto;
	z-index: 0;
	background-color: dff4f7;
}
div#content {
background:#b8d7e2;
}
div#navigation{
background:#b8d7e2;
}
div#extra{
background:#b8d7e2;
}
div#footer{
background-color: #1e6490;
}
div#footer p{
margin:0;
padding:5px 10px;
}

div#content{
	float:left;
	width:423px;
	margin-top:46px;
	margin-left:33px;
	margin-bottom: 46px;
	background-color: b8d7e2;
	z-index: 10;
}
div#navigation{
	float:right;
	width:230px;
	margin-top:46px;
	margin-right:32px;
}
div#extra{
	float:right;
	clear:right;
	width:230px;
	margin-top:16px;
	margin-right:32px;
	background-color: b8d7e2;
}
div#footer{clear:both;width:100%}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"><h1>Header</h1></div>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="content">
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</div>
</div>
<div id="navigation">
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</div>
<div id="extra">
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</div>
<div id="footer"><p>Footer</p></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Thanks all.

**Schmoopy** · 01-12-2009, 07:46 PM

Ah this one should be simple, you've omitted to put the "#" symbol in front of the colour code. Please change the CSS to the following and it should solve the problem:

Code:

div#container{
	text-align:left;
	background-color: #dff4f7;
	width:748px;
	margin:0 auto;
	z-index: 0;
	background-color: #dff4f7;
}

Hope this helps.

**dillankid** · 01-12-2009, 07:57 PM

lol...that was simple. It's fixed, thanks. I think I need to take a break...I'm making stupid mistakes...

**Schmoopy** · 01-12-2009, 08:17 PM

No problem, it's sometimes hard to spot errors in your own code as you've been looking at it for a long time and are likely to miss things, so it's always good to get someone else to look through it - or take a break

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