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= Colours and backgrounds =

== Foreground colour: the 'color' property ==

''color''
|| ''Value:'' || <colour> ||
|| ''Initial:'' || black ||
|| ''Applies to:'' || all elements ||
|| ''Inherited:'' || yes ||
|| ''Percentages:'' || N/A ||

This property sets the colour of rendered text and text decorations.

== Background colour ==

In RCSS, an element's background can be set as a flat colour but not an image. This functionality (and much more!) instead lies with decorators.

''background-color''
|| ''Value:'' || <colour> ||
|| ''Initial:'' || transparent ||
|| ''Applies to:'' || all elements ||
|| ''Inherited:'' || no ||
|| ''Percentages:'' || N/A ||

This property sets the color of the element's generated boxes. The background colour is rendered under a box's padded area.

''background''[[BR]]
''background'' is an alias for ''background-color''.