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
Background Color:
Syntax:body { background-color:color name }A color name can also be given as: “green”, a HEX value as “#5570f0”, an RGB value as “rgb(25, 255, 2)”.
- Example:
<style>h1 {background-color: blue;}</style><body><h1>Geeksforgeeks</h1></body>
Output:
Background Image: This property specify an image to use as the background of an element. By default, the image is repeated so it covers the entire element.
Syntax:
body { background-image : link; } - Example:
<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:
<!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:
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