Tom Livingston wrote: > List, > > What is the reasons for using: > > background: #fff; > > > > instead of: > > background-color: #fff; > > > > I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first > one. I've only used 'background' as shorthand for something like: > > background: #fff url(images/image.png) left top no-repeat; > > Which is better or more correct? > Background is for HTML markup and is reserved for images, background-color is for CSS.
HTML: <html> <body background="your_image.jpg"> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> To control background color in HTML use bgcolor: <html> <body bgcolor="#fff"> <h1>Hello world!</h1> </body> </html> See http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_body.asp for a summary of HTML attributes for the <body> tag. CSS: body { background-color:#fff; } Bill B ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
