# Background color

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 15, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076 "2018-02-15T21:43:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076/1 "2018-02-15T21:43:20Z")

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Is there any way to change the color of the background for each visualization?  
Cuz the default one is just plain white and data information covered on it.

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076/2 "2018-02-15T22:26:32Z")

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This answer covers this pretty well:

> [@How to change visualization background color](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-visualization-background-color/109517/2):
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> This is mostly unavailable in 5.3, the best you can do is enabling the dark theme on the dashboard page. In 5.4+ you can build charts with the time series visual builder which allow for customized background colors.

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**Author:** ![Pororo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pororo/32/27711_2.png) [@Pororo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pororo)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076/3 "2018-02-15T22:32:43Z")

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I am currently at the interface of the time series visual builder and applied the color change on it. But it seems that the change did not be applied successfully.

 ![06](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/4/c47abc79c1bd2e76d219bc7a255dbeb565a9286a.png)

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**Author:** ![Bill\_McConaghy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Bill\_McConaghy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bill_McConaghy)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076/4 "2018-02-16T13:11:07Z")

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Looks like the background controls in your screenshot require you to select a metric and threshold to trigger the background color change.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/background-color/120076/5 "2018-03-16T13:11:10Z")

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