title: Change Rails Bootstrap body color
body: <p>I'm trying to change the body background-color to a custom color. Usually I've written the custom css into the bootstrap_and_override.css file, which works, but with the body tag it doesn't. Some people here suggested finding and overriding the standard body css settings but sublime-text is, just as me, unable to find the corresponding line anywhere in the project.</p>
  
  <p>Maybe I'm adressing the body tag wrong? I've written:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  body {
      background-color: #F8F8F8;
    }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>since the body tag doesn't seem to have any custom class by which it could be adressed. In chrome web inspector, I can see this, so it seems like my code is being noticed but later overwritten. But I just can't find the place where that happends.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/R9gag.png" alt="chrome analytics picture"></p>
  
  <p>The crossed out background-color is the correct one, not #FFF.</p>
  
  <p>I hope someone knows the answer to this, it can't be this hard? Thanks a lot!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong>
  Here is the content of the application.css</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
   * This is a manifest file that'll be compiled into application.css, which will include all the files
   * listed below.
   *
   * Any CSS and SCSS file within this directory, lib/assets/stylesheets, vendor/assets/stylesheets,
   * or vendor/assets/stylesheets of plugins, if any, can be referenced here using a relative path.
   *
   * You're free to add application-wide styles to this file and they'll appear at the top of the
   * compiled file, but it's generally better to create a new file per style scope.
   *
   *= require_self
   *= require_tree .
   */
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Update 2:</strong>
  Here is the content of the stylesheets folder: <br/>
  application.css <br/>
  bootstrap_and_overrides.css <br/>
  bootstrap_and_overrides.css.less <br/>
  ... the rest are the site specific files, ending with .css.scss</p>