CSS Help: putting a background color OVER a background image

Basically, I have a background image for my whole website, and on the comments page I wanted to do something different:
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What I was wanting to do was keep the background image on that page, but at points where I had comments from readers and my responses, I wanted just a solid block of color (or two).

I tried to mock it up in MS Paint (see below.)

I'm pretty much a HTML/CSS newbie, although I did manage to get most of the site looking the way I wanted it to look.

About all I can figure is I'll either need to somehow make the response sections more important or make them a layer somehow that overrides the whole site background setting, or I'll need to make a 1px by 1px image of the solid background color I want, and tile that just within the response boxes.

If there is a different solution, I'm all ears!

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I presume the Comments are their own div's.

If so and you can give thema class something like class="comment" then in the style.

	Code:
	.comment { background-color: #CCC; }

The Solid color background for the div will be seen over the element in it's background.[/code]

Thanks, I thought I tried that before, but it didn't work.

I managed to get it going this time.

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