# Styled sidebar The sidebar has a default color of blue. You can change it to any **Hex color code**. To style the sidebar, the parent object in the `body` array must be of type `section`. Inside the `sections` array you can add your message type. ## Example ![Example](/img/1560465792302.png) ## JSON example ```json { "head": { "text": "I am a header", "sub_head": { "text": "I am a sub header" } }, "body": [ { "type": "section", "sidebar_color": "#bada33", "sections": [ { "type": "message", "text": "I am a message" } ] } ] } ```