Name

bgColor — NN 4 IE n/a DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read/Write

Background color of the element. While you may set the value with either a hexadecimal triplet or plain-language color value, values returned from the property are for some reason the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal RGB version. The default behavior is a transparent background created with a bgColor property value of null.

Example

document.myIlayer.bgColor = "yellow"

Value

A hexadecimal triplet or plain-language color name. See Appendix A for acceptable plain-language color names. Returned values are the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal value. A value of null sets the background to transparent.

Default

null (transparent).

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