i know stupid quesion.... i used to do html a lot more than i do today so prtty much all of it has slipped from me.. for background color i put in<br />
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<body bgcolor = "black"> <br />
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whats wrong?<!--content-->This should work just fine I guess<br />
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<body bgcolor="#000000"><br />
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#000000 means black<!--content-->Here's a really good site for web colors <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/">http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/</a><!-- m --> <br />
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kate<!--content-->I know what the problem is...<br />
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You need to get rid of the space in that tag. So instead of being <body bgcolor = "black"> it should be written as: <body bgcolor ="black"> ,that should fix it.
<!--content-->Sorry, I made a mistake, and I just caught it. It should be written as <body bgcolor="black"> with no spaces at all between the equal sign and the quotation marks, sorry for the mistake, hehe. 
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<body bgcolor = "black"> <br />
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whats wrong?<!--content-->This should work just fine I guess<br />
<br />
<body bgcolor="#000000"><br />
<br />
#000000 means black<!--content-->Here's a really good site for web colors <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/">http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/</a><!-- m --> <br />
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kate<!--content-->I know what the problem is...<br />
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You need to get rid of the space in that tag. So instead of being <body bgcolor = "black"> it should be written as: <body bgcolor ="black"> ,that should fix it.
<!--content-->Sorry, I made a mistake, and I just caught it. It should be written as <body bgcolor="black"> with no spaces at all between the equal sign and the quotation marks, sorry for the mistake, hehe. <!--content-->