# Header Background Color Reverts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** fixed
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417 "2020-08-11T02:45:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Christopher\_Kidd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/christopher_kidd/32/184221_2.png) [@Christopher\_Kidd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Christopher_Kidd)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/1 "2020-08-11T02:45:09Z")

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The header background color on the neutral theme is #333333. I changed this color to #000000 and it stayed that way for about a month. In the last few days, the color has reverted back to #333333 and despite changing it back to #000000 (and saving), nothing happens.

Is this associated with some update and will be fixed soon?

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### Author: ![jabeler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jabeler/32/492320_2.png) [@jabeler](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jabeler)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/2 "2020-08-11T15:35:30Z")

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Seeing something similar here.

It seems all customized color selections are no longer respected.

This changed within the last few days with no changes on our end.

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### Author: ![justin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin/32/157614_2.png) [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/3 "2020-08-11T15:42:51Z")

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We did recently make some changes to how we handle CSS variables and color schemes. We’re investigating what’s going on.

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### Author: ![Christopher\_Kidd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/christopher_kidd/32/184221_2.png) [@Christopher\_Kidd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Christopher_Kidd)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/4 "2020-08-11T16:08:57Z")

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Looks to be working again, thanks!

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/5 "2020-08-11T16:09:49Z")

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Hello @Christopher_Kidd, as Justin noted, we have made some changes to how we handle color schemes, and you’ve stumbled upon a bug where editing a color scheme doesn’t update the changes. I am working on a fix for this.

For now though, I have fixed this on your instance by renaming the color scheme (renaming bypasses the cache mechanism).

WIll update here when the update fix is included, thanks, and apologies for the inconvenience.

Update: this issue should now be fixed via [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c05aced0943c60d5ccee442ab3f0f46ab243ecd9).

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/header-background-color-reverts/160417/7 "2026-08-13T14:28:32Z")

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