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A: When you set the background colour of a Web page using CSS you should also set the text colour, to ensure that there is a legible contrast between them. This is because some people configure their browsers to display Web pages with their own style sheet, which may have its own text colour setting. If you set the background colour without the text colour, your background may be the same as the reader's foreground text colour.
The background colour for the whole page is attached to the HTML body element, as below, but you can use any CSS selector to colour more specific areas of the page.
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How do I set the background colour in CSS?
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