Change the background color in a twitter bootstrap modal?

To change the color via:

CSS

Put these styles in your stylesheet after the bootstrap styles:

.modal-backdrop {
   background-color: red;
}

Less

Changes the bootstrap-variables to:

@modal-backdrop-bg:           red;

Source

Sass

Changes the bootstrap-variables to:

$modal-backdrop-bg:           red;

Source

Bootstrap-Customizer

Change @modal-backdrop-bg to your desired color:

getbootstrap.com/customize/

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You can also remove the backdrop via Javascript or by setting the color to transparent.

If you want to change the background color of the backdrop for a specific modal, you can access the backdrop element in this way:

$('#myModal').data('bs.modal').$backdrop

Then you can change any css property via .css jquery function. In particular, with background:

$('#myModal').data('bs.modal').$backdrop.css('background-color','orange')

Note that $('#myModal') has to be initialized, otherwise $backdrop is going to be null. Same applies to bs.modal data element.

CSS

If this doesn't work:

.modal-backdrop {
   background-color: red;
}

try this:

.modal { 
   background-color: red !important; 
}