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Background Colors and Images
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
- How to use the background-color property to set a background color
- How to use the background-image property to specify a background image
- How to use the background-repeat property to control background tiling
- How to use the background-position property to control how the background is positioned
- How to use the background-attachment property to control whether the background scrolls with the page or remains fixed in place with respect to the view port
- How to use the background shorthand property to combine all the separate background properties into a single property
Backgrounds play a large role in CSS design and are often the bread and butter of the overall aesthetic presentation of a web page. This chapter begins the discussion of background properties by exploring the background-color property.
BACKGROUND COLORS
The background-color property is used to specify a solid background color. The following table shows the possible values for the background-color property.
| PROPERTY | VALUE |
| background-color | <color> | transparentInitial value: transparent |
The background-color property allows any of the color values supported by CSS that I covered in chapter 2, such as a color keyword, an RGB value, or a hexadecimal, or short hexadecimal value. It may also be given the transparent keyword, which indicates that no color should be used. This is straightforward, so let's Try It Out right away. The following exercise ...
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