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Using a child of Twenty Twelve, I've been adding color to all the major containers (#main, #content, #secondary, etc.) using

#arbitrary-id {
 background-color: #dedede;
}

This works for everything but body. I should be more clear: it changed the body background color until I messed with the background color in "Appearance -> Background". Now no matter what I try, I can't override that.

Looking in the HTML of the page and inside the <head> I see:

<style type="text/css" id="custom-background-css">
body.custom-background { background-color: #e6e6e6; }
</style>

Naturally, I tried to change the color using that selector, but since it's generated internally, that trumps the external CSS.

I'm at a total loss for how to do this. How do I change the background color of the body using CSS?

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It sounds like you just need to remove support for the custom background color.

remove_theme_support( 'custom-background' );

You will probably need to hook it to get it to run after the parent functions.php

function disable_bg_wpse_97248() {
    remove_theme_support( 'custom-background' );
}
add_action('after_setup_theme','disable_bg_wpse_97248',100)
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  • That worked perfectly. You are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm very new to all this so I appreciate the full explanation.
    – Tomulent
    Apr 25, 2013 at 18:09
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Look in your functions.php for somehting like:

add_theme_support( 'custom-background', array(
    'default-color' => 'e6e6e6',

Remove it, then you can use your CSS to change the background color.

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