Updated Core and now have Rogue Custom Area Style

Chrouglas · February 25, 2026, 5:40pm

Hi all. I just updated from 9.4.3 to 9.4.7 and I now have a rogue Custom Area Style (background image) being applied to the Main area of seemingly all pages of the same type. I open the Edit Area Design and there is no image set. Any ideas where I might find where this is set? And why it might be populating on multiple page?

Can I just delete the DB reference to the style set in StyleCustomizerInlineStyleSets?

Thanks in advance.

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(Yes I cleared the cache )

mhawke · February 27, 2026, 12:18am

Shot in the dark here. Have you ever had the site on a different theme? I remember years back, a setting applied to a page on an old theme stuck around and affected the new theme. I believe I had to put the page back on the old theme and remove it there and then put the page back on the new theme. Or maybe it was just in a dream. LOL

Chrouglas · February 27, 2026, 4:05pm

Thanks for the thought. It is a pretty old install but I don’t think its ever been set up with a different theme.

Its clearly a custom style that my client added but I can’t figure out why it is all of a sudden being applied everywhere. And more importantly, how to get rid of it.

I added a style in the theme’s CSS file that overwrites the area’s custom style so the urgency is kicked down the road. But if anyone has any ideas, it would be nice to clean it up the hack.

mhawke · February 27, 2026, 6:38pm

Is there a public URL where we could have a look? Sometimes the Developer Console can give up some clues about where things are being called from.

Chrouglas · February 27, 2026, 7:26pm

Of course. Here is a link to one of the pages.

mhawke · February 27, 2026, 8:12pm

Can you tell me the name of the rogue background image?

mhawke · February 28, 2026, 12:53am

Let me take a shot at this. I believe you might have added this rule to main.css

.ccm-custom-style-main {background-image:none}

to clear the blue background. This works but the heart of the problem is that someone has applied a background image to the ‘Main’ area along with some other area-level CSS.

You may know all this but for the sake of others who might pass this way looking for a solution, here are the steps.

In Page Edit mode, click on the ‘Main’ label and choose “Edit area design” then the background icon then clear the background image (or choose one and save and then delete it and save to make sure it sets and then unsets the background image to nothing)

Hope this helps. You could also go to the File Manager and search for ‘Group4.png’ and delete the file altogether but it might be used legitimately in other places so that’s a danger (and your site now reports a 404 on that image so it’s a hack)