background-color

Background colours can be applied to most objects – note that “color” uses the American spelling.

Colours can be one of the 140 websafe colour names:

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p {
    background-color: darkblue;
}

Colours can be one of the 16million+ hexadecimal colours:

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p {
    background-color: #33CC22;
}