Techie lj/html tag help me type post...

[ebb]

[Level - Public]

Anyone know how to change the background colour of an entry?

Comments

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Fraid not, but I always ask these things at idiots_and_lj and usually get an answer within minutes!

[ebb.livejournal.com]

I'm able to change colours in my style etc but I've NO idea how to just change it for one entry... will give that a go!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You might get around it with creating a single table cell and put the entry into that but tables are nasty...

Look here

Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry  Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry  Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry  Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry  Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry  Test entry Test entry Test entry Test entry

This won't change the subject, though, and you can't put html in the subjekt, IIRC.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Doesn't really work, forget my suggestion. I don't know enough HTML to make it really work.
Another community you could try is lj_nifty.

[ebb.livejournal.com]

The post isn't even showing on there! ARGH!!! :D

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

If the community is moderated, the mod has to approve the post first.

[spida-x.livejournal.com]

Styles are made using css (Cascading Style Sheet) which would overide code used for a page.
It might be easier to make a table or div and change the colour of the background for the table/div and put your post comments in there.

[vanishingrad.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely convinced it can be done!
I've never seen a single LJ post anywhere where an entry had a different background colour to the rest of the journal's theme.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

Not sure about the whole entry, but you could try putting:
<div style="background:white,color:black">
at the start and then:
</div>
at the end. Change the specified colours to what you want, et voila!