Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide

Name

background-color — IE4 Y/Y | IE5 Y/Y | NN4 B/B | Op3 Y/-

Synopsis

This sets the background color of an element. The color fills the content area and padding, and extends out to the outer edge of the element’s border. The value transparent trips across a nasty bug in Navigator 4.x, which interprets it as black.

Example

H4 {background-color: white;}
P {background-color: rgb(50%,50%,50%);}
PRE {background-color: #FFFF99;}

Values

<color> | transparent

Default

transparent

Inherited

no

Applies to

all elements