background-color

Introduction

The background-color CSS property sets the background color of an element.

Examples

Syntax

/* Keyword values */
background-color: red;

/* Hexadecimal value */
background-color: #bbff00;

/* RGB value */
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 128);

/* HSLA value */
background-color: hsla(50, 33%, 25%, 0.75);

Values

  • <color>
    The uniform color of the background.

  • Default value transparent

Formal definition

Initial valuetransparent
Applies toall elements
Inheritedno
Animatableyes

Formal Syntax

<bg-color> = <rgb()> | <rgba()> | <hsl()> | <hsla()> | <hex-color> | <named-color>

Difference between web

  • Not support special keywords like currentcolor
  • Not support global keywords like inheritinitial

Compatibility

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