How do I - change the background colour of the output HTML page

Report · Sep 02, 2010

Captivate 5

I am publishing my project to html, but wish to change the background colour of the html page to match the projects colour scheme.

I can find no option in Captivate to do this, and it is always output as white = <body bgcolor="#f5f4f1">

I change the colours used within captivate and change the html colour of the borders, or the captivate project background, but this does not effect the html page when published.

Is this possible?

At present I am having to manual amend the html to the colour of my choice.

Report · Sep 02, 2010

On the top bar, go to Project > Skin Editor

Then click on the "Borders" button (the button with a square on it).

At the bottom, you'll see a place to select the HTML Background color.

That should do the trick (it works fine for me).

Report · Sep 02, 2010

Thanks for response, but it doesn't work for me

It changes the borders html background colour, but makes no difference to the page html background colour when publishing to html.

I didn't have any borders, so have tried adding borders to see if that made any difference, but it didn't. I still get a white web page with my project in the middle of it and a coloured bordered

Report · Sep 03, 2010

Hi there

Can you post a screen grab of what you are seeing? The instructions Orange_Sean provided should have done the trick for you. Even though you aren't using Borders, it still should have changed the HTML background color. Unless we have unearthed a bug or something.

Cheers... Rick

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Report · Sep 03, 2010

Have added screenshots - you can see the skin editor with the background set and then in the webpage displayed you see the html background is white and the entry in the htm page is <body bgcolor="#f5f4f1">.

Report · Sep 03, 2010

Have you always had this problem? I'd recommend making a new test project to see if it's just this project or if there's a bug in your Captivate installation. Also I noticed you've saved your own "Clearvision" custom skin, I wonder if that could be causing it.

Silly question, but are you sure that you're publishing a new HTML page every time? I assume you are since you said you've been able to change the borders. Just in case, make sure the "Export To HTML" box is checked when you publish.

Report · Sep 04, 2010

I just tried this scenario, I changed the HTML color in skin editor and I could see the changes in the output HTML page. But when I tried second time, I'm not able to see the changes. Are you observing the similar issue? I suggest you to file a bug also at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5

Thanks,

Vish

Report · May 04, 2011

I have the same problem and have put the color in manual on the source code page, but have to do that each time I publish. Is there a permenant fix for Captivate for this problem?

Schrolet

Report · May 01, 2013

Did you uncover anything?

I also am having some troubles with the same problem that everyone in the thread has posted about.

Report · Nov 23, 2010

I'm having the same problem. Changing it on the Borders section of the Skin Editor does not seem to do anything. The only way I've been able to change it is by manually editing the project HTML file.

Report · Mar 11, 2011

I've encountered exactly the same problem. Some projects take that background HTML color and use it, and others don't. I can't find any rhyme or reason to it.

Going in and manually editing the HTML resolves the issue, but that isn't particularly pretty.

Report · Apr 21, 2011

I get the same problem. It seems you can change the colour once and it will always stay like that.

Report · Apr 21, 2011

What I ended up doing was manually editing the HTML, really annoying.

Scott Mohnkern

Report · Aug 15, 2017

Click on "Themes" in the top left corner.

Select "Theme Colors"

Then click on "Customize"

You will want to change the color of the "Slide BG"

Report · Aug 15, 2017

@Nancy, sorry but that is not for HTML background at all. Did you eve read this article:

Theme Colors - Captivate blog

I have explored the Theme colors in depth, the color label seldom tells where that color is used.