### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/4736

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<sup>Originally posted by **harrelfe** March  9, 2023</sup>
I can't get monobackgroundcolor to take effect as described in https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-themes.html#sass-variables.  Here is a reproducible example.

````
---
title: "Test"
format:
  html:
    monobackgroundcolor: red
    backgroundcolor: cornsilk
    self-contained: true
    toc: true
    toc-location: left
    toc-title: Contents	
---

Here is some code: `xvariable <- pi`.  Regular text follows.

````
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dragonstyle
2023-03-09T22:35:56Z
dragonstyle
bug
v1.3
closed
monobackgroundcolor being ignored
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4746