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How do I change the background color of the HTML page? Install a library

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This is what happens when you learn React first, without a basic understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS and JS)

I'm trying really, really hard to understand how this is even possible and coming up empty. Obviously, there is a ton of evidence in the responses on that page that indicates that this is happening, but I don't understand it.

An interesting question to ask yourself is how many of the thought leaders in our community (including here on HN) who vociferously denounce DOM-based development at every opportunity have never written a native HTML5 application.

Nobody is recommending that this user installs a library. This user has already installed and is using React, and the top answer shows how to change the background color using style, which is not a React-specific concept, both with vanilla Javascript and with React.

I don't see a problem here.

> React Helmet (https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet)

> I really found this library very helpfull. Really clean solution i would say.

> Sample Usage:

  import Helmet from 'react-helmet';
  <Helmet bodyAttributes={{style: 'background-color : #fff'}}/>

> answered Aug 9 '17 at 10:37

> Rahul

Oh. My bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

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