# Hugo-academic, How to change background color?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610>\
**Category:** Using Themes\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610 "2019-11-04T18:52:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chanikjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/chanikjo/32/9608_2.png) [@chanikjo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/chanikjo)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610/1 "2019-11-04T18:52:16Z")

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Hi, I am using Hugo academic theme. The default background for the academic theme is white-gray-white-gray in order of menus. I want to make all the background color white, but I don’t know how. I looked at some treads and tried to change the customized CSS, but it didn’t work. Then, I tried html code, but no good… Is there anyone who knows how to do it?

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**Author:** ![maiki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/maiki/32/16384_2.png) [@maiki](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/maiki)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610/2 "2019-11-05T03:03:29Z")

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Hiya! The Academic theme was created by @neutreno. It has a [dedicated issue queue](https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/issues) and [community chat](https://spectrum.chat/academic).

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**Author:** ![neutreno](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/neutreno/32/1615_2.png) [@neutreno](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/neutreno)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610/3 "2019-11-05T19:19:37Z")

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Refer to the docs on creating your own theme: [https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/customization/#custom-theme](https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/customization/#custom-theme)

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**Author:** ![chanikjo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/chanikjo/32/9608_2.png) [@chanikjo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/chanikjo)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610/4 "2019-11-06T03:54:32Z")

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Thank you so much! I should’ve read the documentation more carefully! It works 🙂

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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/hugo-academic-how-to-change-background-color/21610/5 "2020-02-28T08:12:45Z")

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