To specify a background image in the body element of an HTML document, follow these steps.

Set a background image using the HTML body element

Add the bgproperties=“fixed” code into the body element, as shown below. Next, add the background=“location” attribute to the body tag, where location is the relative or absolute URL of the image.

This page describes how to do specify a fixed background image in the HTML body element, which is deprecated in HTML5. For a modern solution using CSS, see: How to create a web page as a single background image not tiled.

In the above example, background=“bg.gif” is setting the background picture using the bg.gif and then bgproperties=“fixed” sets the images as a fixed background that will not scroll.

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