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Using Color on Your Web Pages
HTML allows you to change the background color of your page, as well
as the foreground colors of the text and visited links.
A color is composed
by specifying the red, green and blue components of the color in
hexadecimal notation, with a # in front. For example, to specify white,
the red, green and blue components are 255, 255, 255, so you would
use "#FFFFFF". You can also use the following color names, although
they are not as widely supported as the codes:
| Black |
#000000 |
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| Silver |
#C0C0C0 |
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| Gray |
#808080 |
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| White |
#FFFFFF |
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| Green |
#008000 |
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| Olive |
#808000 |
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| Lime |
#00FF00 |
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| Maroon |
#800000 |
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| Red |
#FF0000 |
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| Purple |
#800080 |
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| Fuchsia |
#FF00FF |
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| Aqua |
#00FFFF |
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| Blue |
#0000FF |
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| Navy |
#000080 |
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| Teal |
#008080 |
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For example, to give your page a white background color,
use the following <BODY> tag:
<BODY BGCOLOR="white">
The following attributes can be set in the BODY element:
| attribute |
description |
| BGCOLOR="#RRGGBB" |
Background color |
| TEXT="#RRGGBB" |
Foreground text color |
| LINK="#RRGGBB" |
Link color |
| VLINK="#RRGGBB" |
Visited Link color |
| ALINK="#RRGGBB" |
Active Link color |
- Make sure that the combination of a background color and a foreground
text color remains readable.
- Do not set unvisited and visited links to the same color,
it will confuse your readers.
Sometimes, a browser will have to use dithering to approach the right color.
If you use one of the colors in the following chart, Netscape won't have to
dither your colors.
This Color Picker
helps you to find the right colors.
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