Papa's Perspective 5-Minute Tour of CSS3 Background Gradients Major browsers support CSS3 gradients (including Internet Explorer 10), but with different rendering engines, it's still good to have ...

WordPress' built-in editor has an HTML mode that lets you override the background color of a post by changing its CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) background-color attribute to the color of your choice.

Style sheet syntax CSS syntax is relatively simple. The name of the element to style, referred to as the CSS selector, is followed by braces, within which various attributes, such as font-size and ...

Using custom CSS, you can add a colored background to your posts without editing your posts in other ways and without changing the background of the rest of your blog's body.