How to set the background color of a web page with CSS
The below HTML and CSS code example shows you how to set the background color of a web page with CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>this is the title of the web page</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{
background-color: yellow;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This web page has a yellow background color.
</p>
</body>
</html>
The following link is the web page that the HTML and CSS code above creates: background color example.
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