Did you try putting a DOT before your CSS code

.body {
    background-color: #FFFFD2;
}

If you want to set this to a panel then use
panel.setStylePrimaryName("body");

Also check whether you have included the name of your CSS file in html
file

Compile and re-run your app

Best
-Ankit

On Jul 26, 4:15 pm, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 01:12 PM, Robert Lockwood wrote:
>
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> > I'm really new at all this but really frustrated in that I cannot change
> > the page background color in the GWT example MyWebApp that demonstrates
> > Asynch.
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> > I put this in the CSS file, both as the first item and then as the last.
> > (Tried other things as well.)
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> > body {
> >     background-color: #FFFFD2;
> > }
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> > Occasionally when the page loads it quickly blinks the color but always
> > displays a white background. Why is this happening?
>
> > I'm using Eclipse Helios on Ubuntu.
>
> Maybe use Firebug to display to CSS that's in effect.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

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