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.
Dave, I changed my myspace layout with the myspace profile editor and now when I click on it it only says upgrade to 2.0 I want to keep the normal 1.0 but now I can’t get my old layout off do you know how to fix it?
I have a background but would like to know how to change the colour of the bit on which all your inforation is written (about me etc)
Is this possible? I have seen it on some of my friend’s profiles.
hey dave i was wondering; in the intrest thing on peoples profile it’s usually blue. and i want mine to be white so it will blend in with the rest of my default layout. the only layout i could find that would be that way the background(layout) was grey. i don’t want grey. i herd there is a code for that and i was wondering if you can find it for me because i can’t. thanks you.(:
How do i change the background part of my myspace for comments??? to white.
i needed the code for black and this is a freaky pink colour. :S
Help Pleasee, x
Dude, you look like chuck norris.
please help me how to customize my myspace for musician site..
there is no about me but there is musician details
if you click on edit profile..
i placed the code in bio box but it is not working..
am i doing the right thing? or where can i supposedly paste it..
thank you sooo much if you can help me with this..
I want the white to be grey, how do i do that?
I want to know how do i change my background color behind my information.?
Thank u x
HOW DO U CHANGE THE DEFAULT PART OF THE PROFILE TO A DIFFERENT COLOR?
Hi, Dave! Do you know the code for JUST the About Me table in MySpace? I would like to change the width of the table but can’t isolate JUST the About Me section…I know the coding to change the width, just not the code to specify that table only.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Kathy
please! please! tell me why do i have big blue boxes , purple ones on my profile it was not there at first. how do i get rid of them? it’s been 3-4 months. also my soud is gone are they related? i can’t get rid of the blue squares help!
hi dave, i’m pulling my hair out to change my boring page from the default white to black background. i’ve gone to all sorts of websites, picked the black background, generated code, copy then when i paste it into the about me section, i don’t know where to go save changes to effect the change! what am i doing wrong? help!!
i want to do that, except with color on the sides, i would like a picture.
how can that be done?
I need help. I have my background as a color, which for some reason, over powers my image. The color is set on the Myspace Profile Editor, and I tried putting my background on using the editor. It didn’t work. I’ve tried different codes, and none of them seem to work. It may be because I have a large div over my basic myspace so I can customize it. But, is there any code that will ‘over-power’ the background color set by the layout Editor?
how do i change the color of my about me
i cant get the background color off my myspace page to put a myspace layout what do i do??????
Hey Dave, this is really great! But I was just wondering if it would be possible for you to tell me how to put two borders on the page? if that’s at all possible.. Because I want to have three colours on the background on my myspace.
Thanks! 🙂
hello,
how do i keep the inside part of my myspace white and make the rest my own background?
where all the information about me and everything is have that all on thick white strip going down the page then on either sides of it have my my own backround,
also on my profile instead of a white block/stripe i have all the sections in boxes. i just want it in a strip?
please help, driving me insane =]
Hey this doesnt work on my page,its either im doing something wrong or it just doesnt work,if i already have a theme, i made my myspace layout on coolchaser.com
but i want my theme to be all put together with no boxes like the first picture up there, all white. how do i do that,
please send me a message on this,
http://www.myspace.com/elamine_mary
thanks alot.
how do i change my background to black??
i’ve been trying to use ur codes but my background is still magenta or some kind red color.
how do i hide my top friends off my myspace page??? so no1 can see them?? i guess you dont kno how???
DUDE !
THIS WORKED
THANKYOUUUUUUU SOOOO MUCH !!!!!!
BUT THERE’S 1 THING HOW DO I CHANGE THE COLOR?
how do i get a table code
How do I change myspace background color.
i just wanted to know why is that if people wanna change there private page look it messes with there profile look as well i know theres a way we can change only the private page the page what people see if they arent on your friends list thats all i wanna change not my whole profile look are is there a way we can make them both the same look i think some things need to change on how we can do things cause using that profile editor change everything not jus what you want to change so if you can help me or not just e-mail me back please thank you i just want to change my private page not my profile
thank you! i love you! finally!!
i switched from classic view to th newview on myspace. it messed up my layout, and i hav fixed it. but now…..i have my profile set to private…..but now my background shows up when you are looking at my private profile……instead of just being plain white…like it used to. how can i keep my red bckground to show up on my layout….and have plain white show up again just for the public….?
okayy i tried it like a million times and it isnt working, i tried making the backround color white and “tanslucent” or whatever and its not working!
ahh
how do you change the colour of the table, but so its one solid table and not multiple tables?
if you could help us out that’d be good cheers mate:)
i dont know what im doing help
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
i put a color on my myspace profile and now i am trying to remove the color i put on my profile and put a layout there but but the color is not moveing……….so i leave the color there and put the layout there but the layout do not show only the color show……….can u help me
is there a way i can see who looks at my profile
ok, so here’s my question. i had a flash background once of an electric guitar, and i deleted the codes for it. i left everything completely blank, so i know i didnt miss anything. but the thing is, even though i put a different background, the guitar is still there. the layout i wanted shows up until the page loads completely, then the guitar shows up and all traces for the new layout erase completely, except a link that brings you to the site i got it. how do i fix this if there’s no code to erase?
how can i make my profile color translucent so that my background pic can be seen on my whole page.
hey dave
please help if you can. on my myspace, everytime i mouseover the profile photo a black border appears on the right hand side and the bottom. i have tried changing it in the profile editor but i dont think it helped. i think it is a glitch in a part of my code.
do you have any idea how to get rid of it??
thanks in advance.
maja
xoxoxo
thanks so much. code worked like a charm
I deleted everything out my my about me section .. but no matter what layout code i put it, my layout turns grey.. what can i do?
I need serious help, it’s driving me crazy!?
how do i get rid of the left hand side of the interest box?
Thank you! I added your background frame to my page. It was so easy!
Alicia/Cleveland, Ohio
is it possible to have your theme be your profile background and layout?
LOL… THIS snippet of information I worked out for myself… what a waste of time
this is probably the most dumbest help site ever. you will never become famous.
I WAS WONDERING HOW YOU CHANGE A PRIVATE PROFILES BACKROUND? I SEE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PICTURES AND DIFFERENT COLORS AND I CANT FIGURE IT OUT
heyy i reallyy need help with this. i get how to change my ACTUAL background color, like how you showed us with that magenta color and you had the example and everything. but i want to know how to change the actual body color. like how the center of it is white,ya know where all the writing is, well i want to change it to black. and idk how! HELP!
thank you SO much..you have no idea
How do I make the background of my comments white?
how do you get rid of my interest boxes?
ive put “<Z>” in each of them, but the boxes still appear.
thanks x