3 Comments on “What is the command to add a background color to an HTML document?”

1. computerguy!
   July 14th, 2007 at 4:26 am

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   Or
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   Don’t actually put the color or the URL in caps.

2. tilde~
   July 14th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

   In your CSS file:

   body {
   background: #FFF url(urlhere);
   }

   #FFF = White
   urlhere, just put the image url

   You can add extra details for the background image:
   no-repeat
   top left
   etc.

3. the_surrealestate_agent
   July 17th, 2007 at 5:01 pm

   The body and css examples are good. The answer with only three characters for color is wrong. Here’s a chart for the 216 “websafe” colors with their numerical values:

   For your first site the easiest way is to use or any other hexadecimal number. You can also set bgcolor values in tables, table rows, and table data.

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