Web Design

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● When viewed in a browser,

the page now has the

specified background color.

1 In your editor, open a

document that contains an

embedded style sheet and an

existing body declaration.

2 Within the declaration, type

background-color:

#?;, replacing? with a

hexadecimal value for the

color you want to use.

Set a Background Color ..........................................

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ou can change the background color of your page or of elements within the page with the CSS

background-color property. The background color needs to contrast with the text color to

ensure readability. The default value of background-color is none, meaning that elements are

transparent. Almost every browser sets the background of the body to white, although if you want to

use a white background, you may want to expressly set the body’s background to white to safeguard

against browsers that might have a different default.

Set a Background Color

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