Difference between background and background-color

Background Property The background property in CSS is very commonly used and contains many variants. The background property consists of all the following properties:
- background-color
- background-image
- background-position
- background-size
- background-repeat
- background-origin
- background-clip
- background-attachment
- Example:

html

<style>
    h1 {
        background-color: blue;
    }
</style>
 
<body>
    <h1>
     Geeksforgeeks
</h1>
</body>

Output:
Example:

html

<style>
    body {
        background-image: url(gfgpolaroidimagefunction.png);
    }
</style>
 
<body>
    <h1>
Geeksforgeeks
</h1>
</body>

Output:

Background-color Property: The background-color property in CSS is used to specify the background color of an element. On the other hand, if you only use “Background:” Property, you can either specify it’s valued as an image URL or as a color code or specify the value of each background property in the below-given order.
Syntax:

element {
    background-color property
}

Example:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>background-color property</title>
        <style> 
            body {
                text-align:center;
                background-color:green;
            }
            h1 { 
                color:white;
                background-color:blue;
            } 
            h2 {
                color:white;
                background-color:black;
            }
        </style> 
    </head>
    <body> 
        <h1>Geeksforgeeks </h1> 
        <h2>background-color: color_name;</h2>     
    </body> 
</html>

Output:

Last Updated : 21 Feb, 2023

Difference between background and background-color

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