HTML - Backgrounds
By default, your webpage background is white in color. You may not like it, but no worries.
HTML provides you following two good ways to decorate your webpage background.
HTML Background with Colors
HTML Background with Images
Now let's see both approaches one by one using appropriate examples.
Html Background with Colors
The bgcolor attribute is used to control the background of an HTML element, specifically page
body and table backgrounds.
Note − The bgcolor attribute was deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this attribute.
Following is the syntax to use the bgcolor attribute with any HTML tag.
This color_value can be
given in any of the following formats –
Example
Here are the examples to set the background of an HTML tag –
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Colors</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Format 1 - Use color name -->
<table bgcolor = "yellow" width = "100%">
<tr>
<td>
This background is yellow
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- Format 2 - Use hex value -->
<table bgcolor = "#6666FF" width = "100%">
<tr>
<td>
This background is sky blue
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- Format 3 - Use color value in RGB terms -->
<table bgcolor = "rgb(255,0,255)" width = "100%">
<tr>
<td>
This background is green
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result –
Html Background with Images
The background attribute can also be used to control the background of an HTML element,
specifically page body and table backgrounds. You can specify an image to set the background
of your HTML page or table.
Note − The background attribute is deprecated in HTML5. Do not use this attribute.
Following is the syntax to use background attributes with any HTML tag.
Note − The background attribute is deprecated and it is recommended to use Style Sheet for the
background setting.
<tagname background = "Image URL"...>
The most frequently used image formats are JPEG, GIF, and PNG images.
Example
Here are examples to set background images of a table.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>
<! -- Set table background -->
<table background “C:\Users\gelay\Downloads\giphy.gif" width = "100%" height = "500">
<tr><td>
This background is filled up with HTML images.
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result –
Patterned & Transparent Backgrounds
You might have seen many patterns or transparent backgrounds on various websites. This
simply can be achieved by using a patterned image or transparent image in the background.
It is suggested that while creating patterns or transparent GIF or PNG images, use the smallest
dimensions possible even as small as 1x1 to avoid slow loading.
Example
Here are the examples to set the background pattern of a table −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Background Images</title>
</head>
<body>
<! -- Set a table background using pattern -->
<table background = C:\Users\gelay\Downloads\images.jpg" width = "100%" height = "100">
<tr>
<td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<! -- Another example on table background using pattern -->
<table background = C:\Users\gelay\Downloads\magulo.jpg" width = "100%" height = "100">
<tr>
<td>
This background is filled up with a pattern image.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
This will produce the following result −
