How to set background color in HTML page?

HTML pages have a default while color background if you wish to use a specific color to your webpage here are different ways you can do it,

Using bgcolor attribute in body tag:
Using inline style CSS
Using embedded CSS
Using CSS class
Using external CSS

⛏️ You will set the background color to the <body> tag.

1. Using bgcolor attribute in body tag:

This is a special attribute that you use in body tag that would change the color of your webpage as defined, there are multiple ways you can use it,

Using color names: aqua, black, gray, fuchsia, white, maroon, olive, navy, teal, red, green, blue, purple, yellow, lime, silver e.t.c.
Using hex # color codes: #f2f2f2, #eeeeee, #784264, #aa7722, #189d1920
Using rgb color codes: rgb(128, 128, 128), rgb(0, 0, 0)

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>HTML : bogy bgcolor Example</title>
</head>
    
<body bgcolor="green">
<p>Setting background-color to HTML webpage using bgcolor</p>
 </body>
</html>

2. Using inline style CSS:

You can make use of inline style element to set background color using background-color property,

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>HTML : background-color inline css Example</title>
</head>
    
<body style="background-color:#777777">
<p>Setting background-color to HTML webpage using background-color property</p>
 </body>
</html>

3. Using embedded CSS:

This is one of the most preferred ways of setting a background for your webpage, just take the embedded style into a style element in your head section.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<style>
body {
background-color:#cccccc;
}
</style>

<head>
<title>HTML : background-color embeded CSSExample</title>
</head>
    
<body>
<p>Setting background-color to HTML webpage using background-color property embeded CSS</p>
 </body>
</html>

4. Using CSS class:

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<style>
.page-background {
background-color:#550055;
}
</style>

<head>
<title>HTML : background-color using CSS Class Example</title>
</head>
    
<body class="page-background">
<p>Setting background-color to HTML webpage using background-color property as a CSS class</p>
 </body>
</html>

5. Using External CSS:

If you are using an external .css file then you just take the code in the style section to that file!

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<head>
<title>HTML : background-color using external CSS file Example</title>
</head>
    
<body>
<p>Setting background-color to HTML webpage using background-color using external CSS file.</p>
</body>
</html>

External style.css file:

body {
 background-color:#eeefff;
}

Setting html body background color using bgcolor attribute

⚡️ Supported by all browsers: Safari, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox.

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