diff --git a/tutorial/html.pike b/tutorial/html.pike
index db4da02aa01ec3ad5e0a20f7cdedd810f09c3b05..fbb8f6111ff925c6458a12e2a27e57ea017010bf 100644
--- a/tutorial/html.pike
+++ b/tutorial/html.pike
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ SGML wmml_to_html(SGML data)
     ret=({
       Sgml.Tag("body",
 	       ([
-		 "bgcolor":"#CCD9D2",
+		 "bgcolor":"#ffffff",
 		 "text":"#000000",
 		 "link":"blue",
 		 "vlink":"purple",