Name

BGCOLOR — NN 4 IE n/a HTML n/a

Synopsis

BGCOLOR=”colorTripletOrName"

Optional

Establishes a fill color (behind the text and other content) for the entire layer rectangle. If you combine a BGCOLOR and BACKGROUND, any transparent areas of the background image let the background color show through.

Example

<LAYER BGCOLOR="yellow" SRC="instrux.html" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=300></LAYER>

Value

A hexadecimal triplet or plain-language color name. A setting of empty is interpreted as "#000000" (black). See Appendix A for acceptable plain-language color names.

Default

Varies with operating system.

Object Model Reference

NN

[window.]document.layerName.bgColor

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