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CSS How to Make a Website Responsive Web Design and Testing Adding Breakpoints for Devices

Hadi Farhat
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Hadi Farhat
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Why did Nick Pettit use background for colors instead of background-color

We usually use background-color for the color of the background, is there a difference between background-color and background ?

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Diego Murray
Diego Murray
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Diego Murray
Diego Murray
2,515 Points

There's no exact difference. Background is a shortcut. For example, You can list items such as background-color: blue; background-position: center; background-repeat: none;

Using the background property you can put all of those in one line of code.

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

background-color accepts a color only, while background is shorthand for using background color, background image, background repeat, background position, etc.

You can use background in place of background-color and achieve the same result.

Dan Oswalt
Dan Oswalt
23,438 Points
Dan Oswalt
Dan Oswalt
23,438 Points

The background property can take a list of several arguments, including color, just like border can take several elements (black solid 2px).

Background-color is just more specific.