Failing To Change Ethos Background Color

[Jeannuke]

Hello I have tried my level best to change the Ethos background to white using the customizer and it just will not change. Other color work but only for my side bar and not my main content section.

I want to change both sidebar and main content section to white. Can you please help. I have looked into previous topics about the same issue but the solutions look too customized to work on my site. please help

[prakash_s]

Hello Jean,

Thanks for writing to us,

To change the background color you need to go to the Cornerstone—>Theme Options—>Layout And Design—>Background Color.
Please have a look at the given screenshot given below.

Hope it helps
Thanks

[Jeannuke]

hi prakash i did this exactly and the grey color will not change. then i tried other colors and only the color on the side bar changes.

[tristup]

Hi Jean,

I have checked in the latest version of the theme and the background option is working perfectly with the Ethos stack. I would suggest you update the Pro to its latest version i.e. 5.0.7 and check if that issue is resolved.
If that does not helps, please provide login credentials for your site in a secure note to examine it further, including:

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Thanks

[Jeannuke]

Still the same even after updates.

[prakash_s]

Hello Jean,

Sorry for the confusion the Theme Options settings would only work on the sidebar and for the content section you need to add this custom CSS code under Cornerstone—>Theme Option —>CSS

.x-container.main:not(.x-row):not(.x-grid):not(.x-bar-content):before {
    background-color: #fff;
} 

Please feel free to change the color code as per your design.

The purpose of providing custom CSS is to show you how to add CSS code to your site. Writing custom CSS is outside the scope of our theme support. If you need more customization, you need to learn CSS and learn how to use the browser’s element inspector. In case if you have no idea about coding you can subscribe to One where customization questions are answered.

Hope it helps.
Thanks

[Jeannuke]

Thanks for your help prakash_s.

This makes me wonder what the point of this theme is if I cannot simply change something as basic as my background color.

I think you should state in the theme marketing that this theme requires knowledge of css for customization. Many of us who rely on themes are running away from coding. Purely for this reason I won’t be using this theme again on any other website and will probably dump it on this one.

I am not pleased. Feel like I did not spend my money well.

Thanks for your help regardless. The code worked

[marc_a]

Hi Jean,

Sorry for the confusion, that’s the default settings for the Ethos as stack, the content background was set to white. Every stack has different default settings, if you wish to use the settings in the Theme Options > Layout and Design, you can use another stack called Integrity .

Thank you.