HTML | bgcolor attribute

Last Updated : 30 Sep, 2019

The HTML bgcolor attribute is used to set the background color of an HTML element. Bgcolor is one of those attributes that has become deprecated with the implementation of Cascading Style Sheets (see CSS Backgrounds).

Syntax:

<"tag" bgcolor="Value">

Supported tags:

body
marquee
table
tBody
td
tFoot
th
tHead
tr

Example: HTML <table> bgcolor attribute

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        HTML table bgcolor Attribute 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
  
    <h2>HTML table bgcolor Attribute</h2> 
  
    <table border="1"
        bgcolor="green"> 
        <caption> 
        Author Details 
    </caption> 
  
        <tr> 
            <th>NAME</th> 
            <th>AGE</th> 
            <th>BRANCH</th> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>BITTU</td> 
            <td>22</td> 
            <td>CSE</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>RAM</td> 
            <td>21</td> 
            <td>ECE</td> 
        </tr> 
    </table> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:

Example:HTML body Bgcolor Attribute

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
    HTML body Bgcolor Attribute 
</title> 
</head> 
  
<!-- body tag starts here -->
  
<body text="green" bgcolor="orange"> 
    <center> 
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
        <h2> 
        HTML <body> bgcolor Attribute 
    </h2> 
        <p> 
        It is a Computer 
        Science portal For Geeks 
    </p> 
    </center> 
</body> 
<!-- body tag ends here -->
  
</html> 