CSS - background-color


Description

background-color sets a solid color for the entire background, including the padding and border background, of an element.

Possible Values

  • color − Any color value in any valid format.

  • transparent

Applies to

All the HTML elements.

DOM Syntax

object.style.backgroundColor = "Any value as defined above";

Example

<html>
   <head>
   </head>

   <body>
      <p style = "background-color:yellow;">
         This text has a yellow background color.
      </p>
   </body>
</html> 

This will produce following result −

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