# How to change the background color

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-background-color/49291>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 5, 2016, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-background-color/49291 "2016-05-05T13:03:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-background-color/49291/4 "2016-05-06T14:09:17Z")

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Are you running kibana in development mode? If not the changes from modifying that file won't be visible until bundles are regenerated.

Hopefully this helps:

> [@How to change the page of kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-the-page-of-kibana/49252/2):
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> Kibana packages up files into the root level /optimize directory before serving them to the browser. If your server isn't running in development mode, or the files in the optimize directory aren't updated, then your changes won't be visible. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#development-environment-setup](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#development-environment-setup) is a good resource for getting a dev environment setup. If you have downloaded a packaged version of Kibana (off [https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibana) for exampl…

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