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Foil 14 Formatting a Web Page: Backgrounds

From Preparing Web Pages - HTML Presentation: Preparing Web Pages with HTML -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken * See also color IMAGE

A nice feature in controlling the appearance of your web page (aren't you tired of so-called "Mosaic gray"?) is being able to design the background. This is done either by giving a plain color or by supplying an image to use for the background. Backgrounds are specified as an attribute to the <body> tag.
<body bgcolor="#HHHHHH">
<body background="URL">
where the URL refers to an image. Note that this image can be small - it will just be repeated as necessary to fill the browser window.
Many image files suitable for backgrounds are found at the web site http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/background.html
Other <body> attributes can specify colors for links.


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