Backgrounds
Written by Jen

Adding a background to your page is very simple. You can use an image (which will be tiled) or you can use just a plain color.

Color Background
For just one color as your background, you can choose to use either words colors or hex color codes. That is, you can choose one of the following:

<body bgcolor="red"> <body bgcolor="#FF0000"> Either way, you'll get the same colored background. I suggest using hex color codes because you get more variety that way.

Image Background
Image backgrounds are easy to display, but the effect is completely up to the image. If an image is made for a tiled background, then it would look great, especially if you add in tables for your layout. If it's not made for tiling and you just threw something together, it might not turn out so well.

To display a tiled background, use the following code:

<body background="image url"> The "image url" is the address of the image that you want displayed. You have to upload it onto the internet in order for this to work. I've seen people who have only used the address of the image on their computer, and this does not show up at all on other people's computers.

Combining Properties
I don't see much point in this but sometimes if your background image takes too long to load but you think that having a white background is too ugly, you can always add a color underneath your background image so that people will see some color while your image loads.

<body background="image url" bgcolor="red"> With "image url" replaced with your image and "red" replaced with whatever color you want.