HTML Backgrounds

By default, your webpage background is white in color.

HTML provides the following two good ways to decorate the background part of a web page.

Decorate HTML Background with Colors
Decorate HTML Background with Images

HTML Background Colors

The background-color attribute is used to control the background of an HTML element, specifically page body and table background.

Following is the syntax to use background-color attribute with any HTML tag:

<tagname style="background-color:color_value;">

The background-color property specifies the background color of an element.

You can set the background color of a page is set like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Background Color Example</title>
   <style>
      body
      {
         background-color: #dedede;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>Background Color Example</h2>
<p>Hello Browser! This is a web page having colored background part.</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output produced by the above HTML background color example code:

A color is most often specified by the three methods give below:

a HEX value like "#ff0000"
a color name like "red"
an RGB value like "rgb(255,0,0)"

To get all color codes, then refer HTML Color Codes tutorial.

In the example below, the <h2>, <p>, and <div> elements have different background colors:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Background Color Example</title>
   <style>
      h1
      {
         background-color: #dedede;
      }
      p
      {
         background-color: #ffeded;
      }
      div
      {
         background-color: #c0c0c0;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>HTML background color Example</h2>
<div>
   This is a text inside a div element.
      <p>This paragraph has its own background color.</p>
      <p>If you unset the paragraph color,
         then it will inherited the color of div.</p>
   This is still in the div element.
</div>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output displayed by the above HTML background color example code:

HTML Background Image

The background-image property specifies an image to use as the background of an element.

By default, the image is repeated so it covers the entire element. You can set the background image for a page like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>HTML Background Image Example</title>
   <style>
      body
      {
         background-image: url("imagecol.jpg");
      }
      h2
      {
         color:white;
      }
      p
      {
         color:yellow;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>

<h2>HTML Background Image</h2>
<p>This is HTML Background Image Example.</p>

</body>
</html>

Here is the sample output displayed by the above HTML background image example code:

You can learn in detail about how to set different backgrounds of a web page at CSS Background tutorial.

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