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PRO-014
Pro Tips
How To Build A Custom Theme

Understanding meta tags is the first step to making custom themes. Theme designers create custom themes using HTML and CSS. They add meta tags so people can edit theme styles from the customization panel without having to edit the code.

Meta tags control powerful style elements like background, layout, and navigation. If you’ve ever edited the HTML in a theme, you may have seen something like this in the <head>.

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This line adds the change background color option to the customization panel.

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But Tumblr still needs to know what element of your blog this option controls.


Further down in <style>, there’s a line that assigns this option to your blog’s background color.

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This line tells Tumblr to use the Background color you choose in the panel as the blog’s background color.

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