How do I change the background color on a shiny dashboard in R

Question

I love the new shiny dashboard package in R. I am trying to customize the appearance and its proving difficult. I want to change the background color of the app to white.

Here is what I have done.

I have added a custom.css file to a www directory. It has this code.

body > .content-wrapper .right-side {
    background-color: #ffffff;
}

I have successfully changed the title font with the example here so I know that my css file is working.

I have also used inspect element to find the color in the css and changed it successfully from the developer console.

However the background color will not change when I set the color in my css file.

Answer 1

Adding this to the custom.css file worked...

I found this in the css file for the adminLTE in the shiny dashboard repo.

.content-wrapper,
.right-side {
  background-color: #ffffff;
}