This might be a basic question for you, Dave, but I’ve looked and looked and just don’t see how I can change the background color of my MySpace profile page. But I’ve seen some people do it with pretty cool results. What’s the secret?
I spent a ton of time digging around with different solutions trying to figure out exactly how to do this, actually, and found lots of solutions that seem to involve you having some other site’s graphic or link on your profile page, but that’s not how I want people to see my profile and I figure it’s not what you’re looking for either, so I had to push a lot of bits around to get it all working!
Here’s the good news! If you just want to change the background color of your page from white to something else, all you have to do is pick a color you want to use (you can start with the color picker from my Creating Cool Web Sites book: HTML Color Picker). Figure out the color you want to use then write down its “hex” number.
Then go into your MySpace profile and get to the “About Me” input box, which you can find Profile Edit –> Interests & Personality, and paste in the following exactly as shown:
body {
background-color: a3014d;
}
</style>
In this case, it’ll give you a rather funky magenta. Easily done, right? Just make sure you don’t include the “#” that ordinarily would be part of a CSS color specification.
Here’s how my own profile page looks when I use this background color:
It turns out that MySpace uses tables within tables within tables for lots of its design and layout, actually, so if you want to have the background color “bleed through” some of the core content (which is much more interesting when you have a background picture, but that’s something I’m still writing up) then you have to do a lot more fancy footwork with the CSS to get it to work.
Instead, let me show you something easy to add that can make your page considerably more visually attractive without making your head spin. To do this, we’re going to add a border specification. First off, the result:
Cool, eh? Now, I did that by simply adding the following line in the CSS specification:
body {
background-color: a3014d;
border: 20px solid ff9900;
}
</style>
Turns out there are a lot of different ways to specify a border in the CSS language, but I’ll just note that this is a twenty-pixel solid orange border that we’re requesting as the outer “frame” of the MySpace profile window, as you can see. If you really want to dig into it, check out W3.org’s CSS Border Specification. Quite geeky, but if you skim it, you’ll see some of the values you can specify.
Hope that helps you out! Stay tuned for more articles about customizing your MySpace Profile too.
Finally, if you’d like to connect with me via MySpace, that’d be great! My MySpace Page. Also, since you are just learning about MySpace, you might well be interested in my MySpace Help area too.
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i need help chaneging my background on facebook
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i cann’t find to change my backround on facebook
oh my goodness,
my entire profile is white and doesn’t have all those ‘About me’, ‘Who I’d Like To Meet’, ect. headers and stuff on it. I want to place some pictures down my heroes section, but when I do, it has the header AND the dumb blue box around it >:[
I want it to just be plain white, with no header, to match the rest of my profile.
Help? :[
I was wondering,
how do you get rid of the blue
background color in the interests
section (heroes, general, ect.)
and change the color to white and
also so the words (heroes, general, ect.)
don’t show up, so i can put anything in
there and it will look as if i’m putting
it into my about me section or who
i’d like to meet section.
Thankkks(:
hi ,
i just want to change he background color to all my pages by clicking it from one page
All I can say this page is a superb resource. I trawled last week looking for info and most of it was too complex to understand. At long last I have changed the background color of Vic Myspace page. Thanks for the info.
Vic Stathopoulos
ok so this isa band myspace where it says artist when you sign up but i dont know how to put a background ccan you help me out
How do I change the color of my myspace, but not change my background? I need the code!(: I want to change it black, but not the WHOLE profile.
hey can u change the color on facebook if so how??
Okay, So, usually im really great whenever it comes to editing my myspace…. But i’m tired of my default having a white middle where everyting is written on. I was wondering if there was any way to change that prts color? I mean, i know how to do the background but not that part.
how do you chang back ground can you pleas help me
Dear Dave; I was very happy to find this site on how to change my background colour. However I can Not for the life of me ( unless they have recently changed the interface of MySpace) I can not find the “about me” at all in Profiles. I have had 3 people go in and look for me and i do not see anywhere and neither do they anywhere that says “About Me” or (as has been said “Interests and Personality” is there any chance at all that you could put up a screenshot on this page of exactly Where the ‘about me’ is now?? i thought it was just me but the 3 people can’t see it either so its quite frustrating. I would appreciate any help you can give me. If you need me to write what choices are in there i can just email me. but even in EDIT PROFILE (as it’s a music page) there is nothing but the choices of ” Upcoming Shows, Musician Details, Basic Information,Manage Featured Songs , Listing Info” that’s it so I for the life of me can’t find where to see about me” or where i could possibly put in the html. a screenshot would be wonderful.
Much appreciation for your time and help as we have been looking for almost 5 days now. thank you
how do you set a picture off of photobucket as the background?
hello. (: uhm when i changed the color of my backround it shows up when i press preview profile, but mot when i save it? how do i fix this?
Thank you! (:
how do you change the color of your myspace layout table from white to black without changing your layout?
THANKS SO MUCH!
Hi,
If you look on my link, i am happy with everything except for one thing. How do change the background colour of where the actual writing is written. Please help!!. If you see, it is white and I wish to change it to black.
Return ASAP. because i want it done for tonight thanks,
Okay so I want the middle section to be black and the two sides be white, I have seen it doen before but I have no idea how to do that, can you help me out please?
Okay so a long time ago when i had myspace i would click on “edit profile” then, in the top right corner, i would click “profile editor”. i wouls be able to change the color of my text on myspace like “Music:(my music)” , “Heroes:(my heroes)” , “About Me:(about me)” , “display name” , “(display name)’s Blurbs:(blurbs)” , “(display name)’s Latest Blog Entry:” , etc. is there a way to change this? if so, whats the code and where do i put it? thank you!
THIS WAS not HELPFULL BECAUSE I WNT A DESIGN LIKE ZEBRA STRIPES AND NOT JUST COLOR!!!
Dave thanks so much. I was only looking for the back round color not the layout.And I found it on ur site.
-You rock
ROFL,
you people are so sad. You simply go to Profile> Edit Profile> Profile Editor> Edit theme. You waste your time putting codes that you fail to understand in your about me when you could be doing something much easier. This makes me sick.
hey can you teach me how to change the colors of the background to an image?
i just want to ask, how do you put the whole entire page in a scroll box? i searched alot of time but i cant find the code!
watz the code to change the color of the background were the letters are
omg tht helped me alot now my profile looks so gangster!! lOl
hey your a life saver!! =) hoe do i change the font size and colour? and get rid of the orange colour to something else 4 my comments?? i want to just have a lil rittlin i dnt want the blogs or the box were u put the code in how do i do alla this ?
hello.
umm i was just wondering how to change colours back to normal. you see the thing is i had a background thing and then took it off, when it did that my comment box was orange and pink instead of orange and orange and my heroes and detail box is blue on the outside and white in the middle. and doesnt have the white line seperating it. i want it back to normal, can you please help.
sorry to bother you but i set one of my pictures as my background. But i deleted the picture.cant get rid of background please HELP!!!
sorry to bother you but i set one of my pictures as my background. But i deleted the picture. I’ve done all i can but i cant get rid of the picture.
So if u could send me an email
Thanks
i want to make my myspace page all hot pink withh no white at all.
i know it can be done, because i’ve seen people with it all black.
can you please,please help me?(:
i keep trying to change the backround color but it stays purple..
Hi im trying to change my background picture…but i dont see an option..in went to my picture album click url paste the code to about me and nothing happen…can u please help me on this..i really just wanted 2 change my personal image picture 4 my background
thanks! this was the perfect background color code! all the other ones changed my profile completly!