Setting the color and background of your Web page

You can change the color or use an image as a tiled pattern for the background of your Web page. When you use an image, it overrides the color setting.

You can also specify a different color for the background of tables and table cells. See Using the Table Object Editor for more information.

Using the Site Editor, you can change several pages at one time. Choose Open Folder As Site from the File menu, select the pages you want to change in the Site Editor, and then follow these instructions to change the background of all selected Web pages. (See Changing the color and background of a table for more information.)

Changing the background color

To change the color of your Web page's background:

1. Choose Document Options from the Tools menu (Windows) or from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
   The Document Options dialog box appears.
   
2. Click the Appearance tab.
   
3. Place the pointer on the Background Color box and hold the mouse button down until the pop-up color palette appears.
   
4. Select the color you want to use as the new background for your Web page.
   
   To select a color not found in the pop-up color palette, choose Other from the color palette, select the color you want to use, and then click OK.
   
5. Click OK to close the Document Options dialog box.
   
   The background color of your Web page changes.
   

You can change the color palette that appears in the pop-up menu. Also note, however, that not all colors are supported uniformly by all Web browsers. For more information see Changing the default color palette display.

Using an image for the background

To use an image as a tiled background for your Web page:

1. Choose Document Options from the Tools menu (Windows) or from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
2. Click the Appearance tab.
   
3. Click the Set button for the Background Image.
   
   An Open dialog box appears.
   
4. Select the image file you want to use.
   
5. Click Open.
   
   The path of the image file and a thumbnail representation of the image appear in the Document Options dialog box.
   

   

6. Click OK to close the Document Options dialog box.
   

Note If you select both a color and an image for the background, the image overrides the background color unless image loading is turned off in the browser.

To hide the background image in Edit Page mode:

Background images normally display in Edit Page mode. To increase performance, you can set Claris Home Page to not display them in Edit Page mode.

1. Choose Application Options from the Tools menu (Windows) or Preferences from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
2. Click the Images tab.
   
3. Click the Display Background Images in Edit Mode check box to deselect the option.
   

To remove an image from the background of your Web page:

1. Choose Document Options from the Tools menu (Windows) or Document Options from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
2. Click the Appearance tab.
   
3. Click Restore Default Background.

Changing the default color palette display

You can change the color palette that appears for the color settings in the Document Options dialog box:

1. Choose Application Options from the Tools menu (Windows) or Preferences from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
2. Click the General tab.
   
3. Choose a new palette from the color palette pop-up menu and click OK.
   

Also note, however, that not all colors are supported uniformly by all Web browsers.