Background colors and images
Background color
- You can control the background color of your Web page, although
some browsers support a user-defined color which will override the
color specified in a page.
To specify a color, you must know its hexadecimal value. If you
can find the color's RGB (red, green, blue) number, you can convert
it to hexadecimal using a Web-based converter at:
http://www.telacommunications.com/nutshell/rgbform.htm
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Yahoo has a page of links to helpful color information:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Design_Arts/Graphic_Design/Web_Page_Design_and_Layout/Color_Information/
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- In this example, the color 00FFFF (no red,
maximum green and blue) is light blue. You must
specify the color value in the body tag like
this:
<body bgcolor="#OOFFFF">
See this page with
the OOFFFF color in the background.
Background images
- You can also put a background image on your page by specifying the
image name in the <body> tag. The image will be tiled to fit
the page. You can get some ideas for backgrounds by looking at other
pages on the Web or by looking at collections of images such as Netscape's
Background Sampler. Background images can be in GIF or JPEG format.
The tag for specifying a background uses the background= attribute
with the path or URL to the image. If you create your own image and
have it in the directory with the html file, you can just specify the
image name.
<body background="metal.gif">
or
<body background=
"http://www.ncsu.edu/cc/edu/html_trng/advclass/metal.gif">
See this page with the metal background image
If you specify a background color as well as an image, the image
will usually take precedence, but your page may flash the background
color briefly when it first loads.
Last modified
July 20, 2004
by cawalker |
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