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

Question

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?

Answer 1 · 2015-01-08T02:54:18Z

January 8, 2015 2:54am

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

body {
    background-color: green;
}

Answer 2 · 2015-01-08T02:57:56Z

January 8, 2015 2:57am

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.

Answer 3 · 2015-01-08T03:06:12Z

January 8, 2015 3:06am

thanks!

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