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BGCOLOR Attribute
                 This attribute of <BODY> tag is used to set the background colour of the displayed screen. By default, the
                 background colour of the web browser is white.

                 Different colours can be obtained on the display screen by the combination of three basic colours namely,
                 red, green and blue. In HTML, each of these colours has a defined degree code that ranges from 00 (Nil)
                 to FF (Full) in hexadecimal form. The colour string is obtained by the combination of the code of each
                 colour i.e., red, green and blue, preceded by the symbol #. Syntax to use the BGCOLOR attribute is as
                 follows:
                   <BODY BGCOLOR = “COLOR NAME” or  “#RRGGBB”> </BODY>
                 Where ‘RR’ represents the hexadecimal value of red, ‘GG’ represents the hexadecimal value of green and
                 ‘BB’ represents the hexadecimal value of blue.

                 COLOR CODING

                 Coding of colour can be done as a combination of Red(RR), Green (GG) and Blue (BB) colour. These coding
                 are represented in ordered sequences of RR, GG and BB. For example: If we select a colour as Red, then
                 its red value is full, green value is 00 (i.e. Nil) and blue is also 00 (Nil).

                 Red=FF(Full)                             Green=00 (Nil)                        Blue=00 (Nil)

                 The resulting colour is red, so the red colour has the string (value) “#Ff0000”.


                                               <BODY BGCOLOR     =“#FF0000               ”>


                                            RR (Red) = FF (Full)
                                         GG (Green) = 00 (Empty)

                                            BB (Blue) = 00 (Empty)



                 Similarly, if we select a color blue, then we will assign colour value as:

                 Red = 00 (Nil)                           Green=00 (Nil)                        Blue = FF (Full)

                 The table given below shows codes of different colours and their corresponding hexadecimal RGB values:

                      COLOUR Name              HEX RGB Value            COLOUR Name              HEX RGB Value

                           Aqua                   # 00FFFF                   Black                  # 000000


                           Blue                   # 0000FF                   Grey                   # 808080

                          Green                   # 008000                   Lime                   # 00FF00

                         Maroon                   # 800000                  Purple                  # 800080

                           Red                    # FF0000                   Silver                 # C0C0C0

                          White                   # FFFFFF                   Yellow                 # FFFF00




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