Applying Color to the Background for Topics

You can change the background color for topics by using the parent <body> style tag or classes of that style. If you want the background color to be applied to all topics using a particular style sheet, you can use the parent <body> tag. If you want to change the background color for only some topics, create and use a class of the <body> tag.

How to apply a background color for all topics

How to apply a background color for only some topics

Note: These steps change the background for the entire topic in online output. For print output that uses page layouts, these steps affect the background of the frames only, not the margins outside of the frames. If you want to change the background for print output that extends to the margins, you can specify background settings in your page layouts (see Specifying Page Background Settings). Let's say that you want a yellow background on all topics for both online and print-based output, extending all the way to the edges of the screen or page. For online output, you would use the steps above to set the background color for the <body> tag to yellow. For the print output, you would set the background on the pages in your layout to yellow and set the page margins to 0.