# How can I change the background colour of Dashboard in 5.3.3

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-background-colour-of-dashboard-in-5-3-3/94283>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 24, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-background-colour-of-dashboard-in-5-3-3/94283 "2017-07-24T07:42:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![patil-akshay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/patil-akshay/32/15295_2.png) [@patil-akshay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/patil-akshay)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-background-colour-of-dashboard-in-5-3-3/94283/1 "2017-07-24T07:42:08Z")

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By default, we get white colour as a background of dashboard but I want grey colour as background how can I achieve the same

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-background-colour-of-dashboard-in-5-3-3/94283/2 "2017-07-24T17:55:48Z")

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Kibana has no native way to apply your own styles. There are two ways to do it though:

- You can customize the color by changing the values in the less/css of Kibana. This will require you to hunt down the affected style and associated color, change it, and then create a custom build of Kibana.
- You can inject your style using a hack. This will require you to find the CSS selector of the element you want to change and then inject your own override stylesheet into the page. You will need to write a plugin with a hack ([the template will make this pretty easy](https://github.com/elastic/template-kibana-plugin/)), which would contain and inject your custom stylesheet. Then you install your plugin into your Kibana instance.

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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:** [August 21, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-background-colour-of-dashboard-in-5-3-3/94283/3 "2017-08-21T17:55:59Z")

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