How do I change the background-color of an accordion tab in Bootstrap?

Question

I am trying to change the background color of the tabs on my accordion. When I change the background color in CSS, it just changes the color behind the text and not the entire thing.

Here is a segment of my code:

<div class="panel-group" id="accordion">
    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading">
        <h4 class="panel-title">
            <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseOne">
      Collapsible Group Item #1
            </a>
        </h4>
        </div>
        <div id="collapseOne" class="panel-collapse collapse in">
        <div class="panel-body">
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    </div>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

You are probably changing the background-color of the anchor tag if only the text's background is changing, instead, use the following CSS selector to change the background-color of the panel-heading :

.panel-default > .panel-heading {
    background-color:#000;
}

Answer 2

You likely need to create your own custom contextual state class for the panel. Bootstrap comes with a bunch built in , but if you want something completely different you'll need to add one. This for example would create a new contextual state class for the panels called flashy:

.panel-flashy {
    border-color: #FF934F;
  }
.panel-flashy > .panel-heading {
     color:#fff;
     background-color:#FF934F;
     border-color:#ff934f;
}

HTML code:

     <div class="panel panel-flashy">
        <div class="panel-heading">
           <h3 class="panel-title">Flashy Panel title</h3>
        </div>
        <div class="panel-body">
           Panel content goes here
        </div>
     </div>

Bootply example .

Answer 3

Bootstrap has built-in styles:

change <div class="panel panel-default">

to <div class="panel panel-primary">

all the other Bootstrap colours apply, so panel-success panel-warning etc see here: Bootstrap Contextual colors

any other colour would require you to write a class to supplement the bootstrap classes eg

.panel-turquoise {
    border-color: #32c5d2;
}
.panel-turquoise > .panel-heading + .panel-collapse > .panel-body {
    border-top-color: #32c5d2;
}

.panel-turquoise > .panel-heading {
    background-color: #eff3ff;
}

<div class="panel panel-turquoise">

Answer 4

bg-default

<div class="panel-group" id="accordion">
<div class="panel bg-default">
    <div class="panel-heading">
    <h4 class="panel-title">
        <a data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapseOne">
  Collapsible Group Item #1
        </a>
    </h4>
    </div>
    <div id="collapseOne" class="panel-collapse collapse in">
    <div class="panel-body">
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</div>
</div>