CSS background-color Property
Example
body {
background-color: red;
}Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Meaning
The background-color property sets an element’s background color. The default value, transparent, allows any underlying content to show through.
Note:
- This property is often used in conjunction with the color property.
- Used with block elements, this property colors content and padding but not margins.
| Default value: | transparent |
| Inherited: | No |
| Animatable: | Yes |
| Version: | CSS1 |
| JavaScript syntax: | |
Standard Syntax
background-color: color|transparent|initial|inherit|revert|revert-layer|unset;Browser Support
The numbers in the table specify the first browser version that fully supports the property.
Status
Property Values
The following table describes the values of this property.
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| color | Specifies the background color. |
| transparent | This is default. Sets the background-color to transparent. |
| initial | Sets this property to its default value. |
| inherit | If specified, the associated element takes the computed value of its parent element animation-delay property. |
| revert | Reverts the cascaded value of the property from its current value to the value the property |
| revert-layer | Rollback styles to the ones specified in previous cascade layers. |
| unset | Resets a property to its inherited value if the property naturally inherits from its parent, and to its initial value if not. |
Default CSS Property Values
selectors {
background-color: transparent;
}