Background color not displaying

syntax44 · Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Hi-
I am unable to get the background color to display. I checked the syntax of my css file and my source/html file and as far as I can see, they are correct. But it's still not displaying when I view it in Firefox or Safari. I'm sure it's something obvious that I'm missing. What am I doing wrong? (I posted code below). Thanks.
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CSS File
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<style type="text/css">

body
{
background-color: "yellow";
}
p
{font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
font-size: 1em;
}

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HTML/SOURCE code
=====================

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mainpage.css" type="text/css" />
<title>Joe Smith</title>
</head>

<body>

<p>
Joe Smith's page
</p>

</body>
</html>

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2906

Remove the quotes from the color name. Using color names is not good for some browsers. hex color codes
Quotes are only required for font names that consist of two words with spaces, not color names.