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Thanks for all the help. Finally figured this out and given so many similar unanswered questions, I thought it would be good to post my solution.
Via a child css:
Set the background color as desired for #page

The background for each of the following needs to be set to transparent: #main, #content, article.intro and ‘.featured-posts section.featured-post’

{background-color: transparent;}

The second two took a long time to find.
article.intro controls the background color of pages created using WP.
.featured-posts section.featured-post controls the background color of the featured post (go figure).

Andrew: thanks for the link but I’m not sure how that addresses my question. I’m using Chrome. Re: selectors… I suspect this is the problem. What selectors will resolve this; Or do I need to try each one from the style.css that has #fff as the background color?

Alchymyth: just tried .entry-content but also did not work. The site has to be protected for the time being but the only thing I did to the WP site is add the above styles to the child theme, which I set up using the instructions in the documentation. Didn’t edit the twentyeleven theme and didnt’t add anything else to the child.

Beaverman:

I am using the white option and not using any extensions/plugins. I added the #page{} from above to my child style.css. However, there are still white panels behind any content on new pages I create.

I then added the below styles with no success:
‘#main{ background-color: transparent;}
#primary{ background-color: transparent;}
#content{ background-color: transparent;}
#entry-content{ background-color: transparent;}?’

Did you run into this problem? And if so, how did you resolve it?

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