HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
The
background
attribute is deprecated in HTML 4 and XHTML because
you can achieve similar effects using stylesheets.
5.3.1.3. The bgproperties attribute
The popular browsers no longer support the
bgproperties
attribute ex-
tension for the
<body>
tag. It worked only in conjunction with the
back-
ground
attribute extension and had a single value,
fixed
. Its effect was
to freeze the background image to the browser window, so it did not
scroll with the other window contents. Hence, the example
H2Omark.gif
background image might serve as a watermark for the document:
<body background="pics/H2Omark.gif" bgproperties="fixed">
5.3.1.4. The text attribute
Once you alter a document's background color or add a background im-
age, you also might need to adjust the text color to ensure that users
can read the text. The HTML 4/XHTML
text
standard attribute for the
<body>
tag does just that: it sets the color of all nonanchor text in the
entire document.
Give the
text
attribute a color value in the same format as you use to
specify a background color (see
bgcolor
in the earlier
section, 5.3.1.1
)an
RGB triplet or color name, as described in
Appendix G
.
For example, to
produce a document with blue text on a pale yellow background, use:
<body bgcolor="#777700" text="blue">
