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123 Web Design! Adding a background The first thing most beginner webmasters want to do with their web page is to add a background to it, whether it be a background color or image. By default, a document with no background appears gray (or white in newer browsers) in the background. That's easy to fix. Lets begin by adding a background color. To add a splash of color to your document, add the following code inside the <body> tag itself: <body bgcolor="#XXXXXX"> where xxxxxx is the hex code for the color you want. "Why can't I just use the name of the color", you ask. Well, ask the creators of HTML that question! Anyhow, here's a small chart of the hex code for some common colors:
For example, the below gives our document a background of black: <body bgcolor="#000000"> Now that you know how to give your doc a background color, lets move on to learn how to give it an image as well. For illustration, lets first bring in a nice image we'll be using:
To utilize the above image as the background, use the following syntax: <body background="backgr15.jpg"> Many authors like to give their document BOTH a background color, and an image as well. This way, while the image has yet to come through from the server, surfers will see a background color in the meantime: <body bgcolor="#000000" background="backgr15.jpg"> |
