For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type, <pre>body {background:red; color:maroon}</tt>. Body is the selector - meaning you want to edit a characteristic of the body in html, background and color are the properties - background refers to the background color and color refers to the text color, and then red and maroon are the given values for those properties.
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For example, in order to change the background to red, and the text color to maroon, you would type,
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body {
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background:red;
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color:maroon}</pre> Body is the selector - meaning you want to edit a characteristic of the body in html, background and color are the properties - background refers to the background color and color refers to the text color, and then red and maroon are the given values for those properties.