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CSS How to Make a Website CSS: Cascading Style Sheets What is CSS?

Posted by Chanel Allen
Chanel Allen
2,746 Points

What do you use as an element selector if you want the whole background to be one specific color?

I understand what you do if you want the footer or nav to be a certain color.

Footer{background-color: green; }
nav { background-color: orange;}

but what if I want to make the whole background-color one color what would be the element selector? Is this when using Div's comes in?

3 Answers

Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points
Kelly von Borstel
Kelly von Borstel
28,880 Points

I believe you use body element as selector if you want the entire background of page affected.

body {
    background-color: green;
}
Seth McCombs
Seth McCombs
16,767 Points
Seth McCombs
Seth McCombs
16,767 Points

You can set the background to the body element

body { 
     background-color: red; 
}

or you can create divs, using a wrapper div is a very common (a div with the class "wrapper") to contain all other elements.

Chanel Allen
Chanel Allen
2,746 Points
Chanel Allen
Chanel Allen
2,746 Points

thanks!