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lionscub144

01-13-2008, 07:11 PM

whats the proper way to do background color in css?
this is how i was trying and it didnt work.

<body background-color: #000000;>
i also tried
<body bgcolor: #000000;>

so far its not working i also tried declaring it in my style declaration underneath the header. what gives?

johnnyblotter

01-13-2008, 07:29 PM

body {
background-color:#00000;
}

lionscub144

01-13-2008, 08:31 PM

for some reason its not working even when changed i dont get it ive done this before and it worked.

this is the first way ive tried

<style type="text/css">
body { background-color:#00000; }
</style>

and then i tried this way.

<body background-color: #000000; >

ray326

01-13-2008, 11:32 PM

lionscub144

01-14-2008, 12:24 AM

yes im thinking maybe its just a browser thing ive tried about 5 times the exact way above.

i tried inline to.

lionscub144

01-14-2008, 12:31 AM

as a matter of fact i cut and pasted what u posted to double check

this is whats in there

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML
1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>.::Ahavat Tzion::.</title>

<style type="text/css">
body { background-color:#00000; }
</style>

<head/>

maybe the charset is in the way??im not sure where im messing it up

WebJoel

01-14-2008, 06:36 AM

lionscub144

01-14-2008, 12:16 PM

thanks dude thats what it was i need to pay closer attention.
thanks Joel

ray326

01-14-2008, 12:33 PM

-You need one more "0" to get this to work...Or two fewer. :) Good catch.

lionscub144

01-14-2008, 06:08 PM

so it can be shorthanded then? like #000 ?

ray326

01-15-2008, 10:20 PM

Yep. When the RGB values are doubled up, e.g. #112244, then you can use the single distinct digit (hexit?) for each, #124.