Dawn Theme - set background color to NOT background-1

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Hello everybody.

I am trying to customize the shopify theme Dawn to have more flexibility in color choices.

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I struggle to find where I can prevent that the padding / margin background is automatically set to the background-1 color. This is still stock Dawn so it should be the same for the theme.

Since this is the case for several options, I was suspecting the body to contain this information, but apprently it does not.

Can someone help out?

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I figured that I could use the Console to see where styling happens. So for every beginner : use the console on the website to get yourself displayed, what you need to adapt

In this case it was the .gradient class in base.css that specifies the background. The gradient color is derived from theme.liquid that uses the first gradient as background - if set - and otherwise refers back to the background-1