Here are the basics; the background and color have been defined in the style section.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Basic HTML</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
// all JavaScript here
//-->
</script>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
/* cascading style sheet */
body {
background:beige;
color:black;
}
p {
background:chocolate;
color:white;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- html here -->
<h1>My site</h1>
<p>some content here</p>
</body>
</html>
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