Why I cannot use both bgcolor and background properties together in the tag of HTML

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<html>
<head>
<title>HTML 4.01 Tag Reference</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="red" text="blue" background="C:\Users\tanuj_gyan\Pictures\Good Morning\9129_21167.jpg" bgcolor="red">
Hello
</body>
</html>

Whenever I am executing the above code the background image is covering the entire space and background color is not at all visible. Kindly help!

Posted 10-Jan-12 19:43pm

puja11191

Updated 10-Jan-12 19:53pm

Mehdi Gholam

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You should forget all such attributes and use CSS only. Don't keep living in stone age.

CSS!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS[^],
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/[^].

—SA

Posted 10-Jan-12 20:10pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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puja11191 11-Jan-12 3:17am

Hi thanks for your answer. I asked this question from educational point of view and not from application point of view!!!

Wonde Tadesse 11-Jan-12 17:56pm

5+. Lol and welcome to 300K world.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Jan-12 21:14pm

Thank you, Wonde.
--SA

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Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-10T19:53:00

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Hi,

you can use both stuffs using style sheet.

Please look into this

Posted 10-Jan-12 19:53pm

Jaganathan Bantheswaran

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puja11191 11-Jan-12 3:17am

Hi thanks for your answer. I asked this question from educational point of view and not from application point of view!!