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<!-- Setting background color and background image. -->
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>View snippet page</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
	background-color:#000000;
	background-image: url(stars.gif);
	background-repeat:repeat;
	}
h1 {
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 18px;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #ffffff;
	}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Background will either be a black with colour or black with an image so white text will always be readable.</h1>

</body>
</html>