HTML Fonts
The <font> tag in HTML is
deprecated. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has removed the <font> tag
from its recommendations. In future versions of HTML, style sheets (CSS) will
be used to define the layout and display properties of HTML elements.
The
<font> Tag Should NOT be used.
HTML Backgrounds
Backgrounds
The <body> tag has two
attributes where you can specify backgrounds. The background can be a color or
an image.
Bgcolor
The bgcolor attribute specifies a
background-color for an HTML page. The value of this attribute can be a
hexadecimal number, an RGB value, or a color name:
<body
bgcolor="#000000"> <body bgcolor="rgb(0,0,0)">
<body bgcolor="black">
The
lines above all set the background-color to black.
Background
The background attribute can also
specify a background-image for an HTML page. The value of this attribute is the
URL of the image you want to use. If the image is smaller than the browser
window, the image will repeat itself until it fills the entire browser window.
<body background="clouds.gif">
<body background = "http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/graphics/clouds.gif">
The
URL can be relative (as in the first line above) or absolute (as in the second
line above).
If
you want to use a background image, you should keep in mind:
- Will the background image increase the loading time too much?
- Will the background image look good with other images on the page?
- Will the background image look good with the text colors on the page?
- Will the background image look good when it is repeated on the page?
- Will the background image take away the focus from the text?
Note: The bgcolor, background, and the
text attributes in the <body> tag are deprecated in the latest versions
of HTML (HTML 4 and XHTML). The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has
removed these attributes from its recommendations. Style sheets (CSS) should be
used instead (to define the layout and display properties of HTML elements).
Try It Out!
Open
your text editor and type the following text:
<html>
<head>
<title>My First
Webpage</title>
</head>
<body background="http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/graphics/clouds.gif"
bgcolor="#EDDD9E">
<h1
align="center">My First Webpage</h1>
<p>Welcome to my
<strong>first</strong> webpage. I am writing this page using a text
editor and plain old html.</p>
<p>By learning html, I'll
be able to create webpages like a <del>beginner</del>
pro....<br>
which
I am of course.</p>
</body>
</html>
Save your page as mypage3.html
and view it in your browser.
Notice
we gave our page a background color as well as a background image. If for some
reason the web page is unable to find the picture, it will display our
background color.
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