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This tag will determine the color of your background or specify the location of the graphic you wish to be your background. This tag is an attribute of the body tag.
Color | Image
Place your cursor in the body tag at the top of the page. Type bgcolor=#, # being the color number or name that you wish the background to be. Click here for the catalog of colors. This tag, when completed correctly will look like this: <body bgcolor=red>
Place your cursor in the body tag at the top of the page. Type background=image.gif, image.gif being the url/location of the image you wish to be the background. If the image is smaller than the screen, it will tile. When completely correctly, this tag will look like this: <body background=images/Bkgd.gif>
If you wish, type bgproperties=fixed. This will cause the background image to remain stationary while the contents move over. Observe the page you are currently looking at for example. It's not quite so obvious on this background, but if you look closely, it doesn't ever move.
It is also possible to use both of the above tags. If an image cannot be found, the browser will display white unless you put in both tags. A body tag with both attributes would look like this: <body bgcolor=blue background=images/Bkgd.gif>
