After starting to build my site, I changed the page colour from white. Yet when I previewed the site the page displayed as a white background. Any suggestions? Thanks
Ted D.
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After starting to build my site, I changed the page colour from white. Yet when I previewed the site the page displayed as a white background. Any suggestions? Thanks
Ted D.
For the best group debugging, you might want to attach a copy of the .web file in question to your next post.
Here is the site page. Hope I attached correctly. Thanks
Attachment 57710
Hi Ted - you attached it correctly. I can confirm in IE7 I too am not able to get a coloured background. It looks fine in Xara-WD but displays white in the preview & white when exported & opened in IE7.
Very weird...
Have you been able to get background colours to stick in other tests?
Regards, Ross
There appears to be several 'background' layers created for no reason. Also what is Layer1 for?
Though removing them has made no difference to the oddity.
Looking at the preview source, it shows nothing is defined as body background:
<body style="">
I deleted all the background layers and layer 1. Changed the background colour myself and exported. The page still has a white background.
Creating a page myself the background can be changed normally by dropping a colour on the page.
Something within Ted's file is not allowing the background colour to be updated.
Layer 1 is nothing -left over from experimenting. Stripped all layers out except the guides, mouse off, mouse over. No change in preview.
After stripping all those layers, I right-clicked the page and chose 'Default Background'
Saved, then Ctrl+Dragged a fill from the Fill Gallery to the page.
Preview showed the fill correctly. I then ctrl+dragged a colour from the colourline. Now the background shows correctly and the page source shows:
<body style="background-color: #191919">
I think right-clicking page and choosing 'Default Background' may have been the key.
Excellent. Thanks
good to know..
thanks.
White background in Firefox.
Pleasure :D
:confused::confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
Which file Gary? Ted's or my fixed version
The later is working in all browsers tested here.
Steve, your fixed version works fine, but I am getting white page backgrounds after setting the page colour in my own page, even using your suggested 'set to default' fix.
Nothing notepad (and covoxer) can't fix.. ;-)
Paul
Quick update - it all works perfectly on some new test pages. My page with the problem came originally from Xtreme though..
Paul
Ah - maybe the presence of a Page background layer is the issue coming from Xtreme.
It may be a factor, but a simple test importing from Xtreme worked perfectly.
If this file was originally created in Xtreme and then exported to WD, there are some possible reasons for this problem.
For example, the Xtreme design could have multiple background layers, while there's no concept of the background layers in the WD so they could be imported wrongly.
I selected everything in the file, copied it, started a new document, set size and background colour and pasted in place. No problem now.
Paul