# How to change visualization background color

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-visualization-background-color/109517>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-visualization-background-color/109517 "2017-11-29T06:26:36Z")\
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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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