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Background Color

By default, the root-layout region is black. All other regions use transparency as their default. In the SMIL layout, you can specify a different background color for any region, as in the following example:

<smil>
<head>
<layout>
<root-layout width="450" height="450" background-color="#ffcc00" />
<region id="image" top="5" left="5" width="150" height="75" z-index="2" background-color="navy" />
<region id="text" top="50" left="50" width="100" height="100" z-index="3" background-color="red" />
</layout>
</head>
<body>
...media clip tags will go here...
</body>
</smil>

For the color value, use any RGB hexadecimal value (#RRGGBB) supported by HTML. You can also use the basic 16 named colors (maroon, navy, etc.).

 

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