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CSS

Posted by Omer Asadullah
Omer Asadullah
10,415 Points

background: or background-color:.... Which is the correct way?

In CSS Deep Dive videos Guil sometimes types background: and sometimes background-color: to set the color of background of an element. My question is which is the correct and appropriate way? Or are both valid?

1 Answer

Neville Barrett
Neville Barrett
6,141 Points

Hey Omer,

There's no real difference since background is a shortcut for:

  1. background-color
  2. background-image
  3. background-position
  4. background-repeat
  5. background-attachment

If you use the background shortcut you could add the properties 2-5 without repeating background-image, background-position... and so on.

I hope this helps.

Thanks