Appearance:
 background-color: <value>
Possible Values:
 <color> | transparent
Initial Value:
 transparent
Applies to:
 All elements
Inherited:
 No

The background-color property sets the background color of an element. For example:

BODY { background-color: white }
H1 { background-color: #000080 }

Use:

<style>
textarea.bg {background-color: background;height:100px;color:activecaption}
</style>

in between the <HEAD> and the </HEAD> tags, then place the following code into the body of your document to display:

See colour tables for more

Authors may also use the shorthand background property, which is currently better supported than the background-color property.