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Today's Subject is Color
HTML Colors
Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website. Youcan specify colors on page level using <body> tag or you can set colors for
individual tags using bgcolor attribute.
The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set different
colors:
- bgcolor - sets a color for the background of the page.
- text - sets a color for the body text.
- alink - sets a color for active links or selected links.
- link - sets a color for linked text.
- vlink - sets a color for visited links - that is, for linked text that you
have already clicked on.
HTML Color Coding Methods
There are following three different methods to set colors in your web page:- Color names - You can specify color names directly like green, blue
or red.
- Hex codes - A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green,
and blue that makes up the color.
- Color decimal or percentage values - This value is specified using
the rgb( ) property.
Now we will see these coloring schemes one by one.
HTML Colors - Color Names
You can specify direct a color name to set text or background color. W3C haslisted 16 basic color names that will validate with an HTML validator but there
are over 200 different color names supported by major browsers.
Note: Check a complete list of HTML Color Name.
W3C Standard 16 Colors
Here is the list of W3C Standard 16 Colors names and it is recommended to
use them.
Example
Here are the examples to set background of an HTML tag by color name:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Colors by Name</title>
</head>
<body text="blue" bgcolor="green">
<p>Use different color names for body and table and see the result.</p>
<table bgcolor="black">
<tr>
<td>
<font color="white">This text will appear white on black background.</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
HTML Colors - Hex Codes
A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two digits (RR)
represent a red value, the next two are a green value (GG), and the last are
the blue value (BB).
A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe
Photoshop, Paintshop Pro or MS Paint.
Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign (#). Following
is a list of few colors using hexadecimal notation.
Use different color names for body and table and see the result.
| This text will appear white on black background. |
Note: All the browsers do not support rgb() property of color so it is
recommended not to use it.
Following is a list to show few colors using RGB values.
Browser Safe Colors
Here is the list of 216 colors which are supposed to be safest and computer
independent colors. These colors very from hexa code 000000 to FFFFFF and
they will be supported by all the computers having 256 color palette.
