Change background color of columns

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Hey there,

I've been trying to do it like in this post, but it did not do not what I was expecting:

Re: horizontal line + change background color of only one column + Align image in the middle of column

Is it correct that only columns with content count as "childs"? Which for me is a problem because of mobile.

What I am trying to do: having white text on black background in column 3 (which works, choosing child no. 1), but I would like the second column (left to the text) to be black as well. Also, I would like to layout some other pages with black areas in them.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Dear @rbnbm
no. Childs are something different:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_nth-child.asp

You can just give the column a class custom-column-background and then make it blue:

.custom-column-background {
background-color: blue;
}

Its pretty simple.

I hope I could help!

Marius

Hi Marius,

Thanks!

Unfortunately I don't know where/how to assign the class to the column in the gridder. In the dropdown menu I only find an option for the class of the row.

Also - in case I get it going - would that affect the whole column, that is in every row?

Dear @rbnbm
right click on the column:

And then enter the name of the class:

And this you put into your CUSTOM CSS:

.custom-column-background {
background-color: blue;
}

All the best!

Marius

Hey,

thanks again – most likely I miss something, but if I do it exactly like you have written, the class is applied to the whole row. Change the class in one column, every other column gets the same class.

As I tried to explain in my first post - it only works when there is content in the column, p.e. some text.

Cheers!

Dear @rbnbm
Ah! Ok! The column!
Sorry about this.
That always confuses me. Columns and rows…

No. Sorry. Not possible to make a different colour for the column.

But there is a way:
Make use of the STACK elements function.
And give the stack element a class:

Best!

Marius

Hi Marius,

nice, that did the trick – thanks a lot for your help and support!

Best
Rbn