The command for changing any background item immediately follows the "TITLE" and "/TITLE" commands. To change just the background color, enter this command;
BODY BGCOLOR="######"
Now you need a color code. This code will tell the browser what color to use. The 6-digit code will go in place of the "######" in the above command. The technical term for these little 6-digit puppies is a Hex Code.
The codes are not very user friendly and you need a chart to let you know what code makes what color. There are actually over a thousand hex codes producing every imaginable shade of red, or yellow, or whatever.
Please note: When you write these codes, write them with a "#" sign in front of the code. Be sure to enclose it all inside of quotation marks! So now that I know the code of the background I wish to create, I simply insert the code into the command and place the command on the HTML page just below the "TITLE" command.
Background Wallpaper
The name is a bit misleading. When you see an HTML page with wallpaper or backgrounds, it is not one continuous .gif or .jpeg. It is one small .gif or .jpeg repeated again and again... and it is equally as simple as the colors above.
First you need a background. Since you need a digitizer to make backgrounds, and I know not everyone has one of these at their fingertips, the best way to use a background is to grab one off the Internet. The command for background color would be:
But...it will take a bit of time for the background.gif or .jpeg to load. It looks nice to put a color command befor the BODY BACKGROUND command. What happens is that your page goes to a certain color and then the wallpaper wipes over that color. Nice effect.
Please note: The use of two commands, one for BGCOLOR and
the other for BACKGROUND, does not work on upper level browsers.
You'll need to put them both together in the same command.
Something like this:
