How do I add colour to the entire header?

[Fidens1]

Hi all,
I've set up a new page. The margins are all set to 0. I set the background colour. It works, but in the header (and footer) only the top line in coloured in. I've attached a picture of what I'm getting. Why isn't the whole header coloured in? Does anyone know how I can achieve this?


Cheers,

[SteveS]

Where have you set the background colour? For example, have you set it on the body tag, or on a design element?

[Fidens1]

Hi,
I've set the background colour on the HTML tag. I thought that would colour all of the background. It does on the page, just not the header and footer. It only partial colours it in for some reason.

Cheers.

[SteveS]

I'd try the body tag to see if that made a difference...

[Fidens1]

Hmmm. That definitely won't help because the body tag sits inside the header and footer tags.

What else could it be?

[LTinker68]

That definitely won't help because the body tag sits inside the header and footer tags.

For print output, if you're using page layouts (which you should), there are body tags in each type of frame. Setting the background color on the body tag should take care of the background color for all frame types in your page layout. However, you can also specify a background color in the page layout itself, I believe. If not, you can specify background colors for the frames in the page layout, but those would be hard coded in that page layout.

[Fidens1]

No, still not working. Oh, well. Maybe I should just remove the header and footer?

[Msquared]

What content have you got in your header, and how deep is it? Is there any emptyspace between the header and your body frame?

If your header only has one (empty?) paragraph, followed by empty space, does the coloured band correspond to the background colour being applied to the paragraph, and the rest of the header having no content and hence nothing to apply your background formatting to?

if the white bit is empty space between your header and body frames, then no amount of formatting can apply a colour to nothing.

If so, you could make sure the header joins up with the body frame, then try putting a div in your header, set to the depth of the header frame, then set the background colour for that.