HTML TAGS AND COLOR

COLOR CODES

Be sure to leave the rgb= OUT.

White rgb= #FFFFFF	Red rgb= #FF0000	Green rgb= #00FF00	Blue rgb= #0000FF
Magenta rgb= #FF00FF	Cyan rgb= #00FFFF	Yellow rgb= #FFFF00	Black rgb= #000000
Aquamarine rgb= #70DB93	Baker's Chocolate rgb= #53317	Blue Violet rgb= #9F5F9F	Brass rgb= #B5A642
Bright Gold rgb= #D9D919	Brown rgb= #A62A2A	Bronze rgb= #8C7853	Bronze II rgb= #A67D3D
Cadet Blue rgb= #5F9F9F	Cool Copper rgb= #D98719	Copper rgb= #B87333	Corn Flower Blue rgb= #42426F
Dark Brown rgb= #5C4033	Dark Green rgb= #2F4F2F	Dark Green Copper rgb= #4A766E	Dark Olive Green rgb= #4F4F2F
Dark Orchid rgb= #9932CD	Dark Purple rgb= #871F78	Dark Slate Blue rgb= #6B238E	Dark Slate Grey rgb= #2F4F4F
Dark Tan rgb= #97694F	Dark Turquoise rgb= #7093DB	Dark Wood rgb= #855E42	Dim Grey rgb= #545454
Dusty Rose rgb= #856363	Feldspar rgb= #D19275	Firebrick rgb= #8E2323	Forest Green rgb= #238E23
Gold rgb= #CD7F32	Goldenrod rgb= #DBDB70	Grey rgb= #C0C0C0	Green Copper rgb= #527F76
Green Yellow rgb= #93DB70	Hunter Green rgb= #215E21	Indian Red rgb= #4E2F2F	Khaki rgb= #9F9F5F
Light Blue rgb= #C0D9D9 Light	Grey rgb= #A8A8A8	Light Steel Blue rgb= #8F8FBD	Light Wood rgb= #E9C2A6
Lime Green rgb= #32CD32	Mandarian Orange rgb= #E47833	Maroon rgb= #8E236B Medium	Aquamarine rgb= #32CD99
Medium Blue rgb= #3232CD	Medium Forest Green rgb= #6B8E23	Medium Goldenrod rgb= #EAEAAE	Medium Orchid rgb= #9370DB
Medium Sea Green rgb= #426F42	Medium Slate Blue rgb= #7F00FF	Medium Spring Green rgb= #7FFF00	Medium Turquoise rgb= #70DBDB
Medium Violet Red rgb= #DB7093	Medium Wood rgb= #A68064	Midnight Blue rgb= #2F2F4F	Navy Blue rgb= #23238E
Neon Blue rgb= #4D4DFF	Neon Pink rgb= #FF6EC7	New Midnight Blue rgb= #00009C	New Tan rgb= #EBC79E
Old Gold rgb= #CFB53B	Orange rgb= #FF7F00	Orange Red rgb= #FF2400	Orchid rgb= #DB70DB
Pale Green rgb= #8FBC8F	Pink rgb= #BC8F8F	Plum rgb= #EAADEA	Quartz rgb= #D9D9F3
Rich Blue rgb= #5959AB	Salmon rgb= #6F4242	Scarlet rgb= #8C1717	Sea Green rgb= #238E68
Semi-Sweet Chocolate rgb =#6B4226	Sienna rgb= #8E6B23	Silver rgb= #E6E8FA	Sky Blue rgb= #3299CC
Slate Blue rgb= #007FFF	Spicy Pink rgb= #FF1CAE	Spring Green rgb= #00FF7F	Steel Blue rgb= #236B8E
Summer Sky rgb= #38B0DE	Tan rgb= #DB9370	Thistle rgb= #D8BFD8	Turquoise rgb= #ADEAEA
Very Dark Brown rgb= #5C4033	Very Light Grey rgb= #CDCDCD	Violet rgb= #4F2F4F	Violet Red rgb= #CC3299
Wheat rgb= #D8D8BF	Yellow Green rgb= #99CC32

There are 5 different aspects of a web page who's color you can control.

They are the background, the regular text, the unvisited links,
the currently active link and visited links.
Of these, the currently active
link is least likely to be used.

The color codes supplied can be used with any
of the objects, not just for backgrounds.

The HTML coding is fairly simple. Leave the period (<.)out of your tag.
It is there now to prevent our browsers from reading it as a command line.

For the background color use this: <.body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

This produces a page with a white background because
the color code #FFFFFF is the code for white.

To change the text color,
use the following: <.body text="#000000">

This produces a page with black text
because the color code #000000
is the code for black.

To change the unvisited links color,
use the following: <.body link="#00FF00">

This produces a page with blue links because
the color code #00FF00 is the code for blue.

To change the active link color,
use the follow: <.body alink="#DB70DB">

This produces a page with purple links
while the link is active because
the color code #DB70DB is the code for purple.

To change the visited link color,
use the following: <.body vlink="#FF0000">.

This produces a page with red visted links because
the color code #FF0000 is the code for red.

The color codes are made up of 3 2-digit codes with
each 2 digit code representing the amount of red,
blue or green that makes up the color.

The digits are not base 10 numbers which
make them look strange to most people.

They are actually hexidecimal or base 16.
So 10 in hexidecimal is 16 in base 10.

A color that starts with 00 has
no red and a color that ends in 00 has no blue.
A color that starts with FF has full red and a
color with FF as its middle pair of
digits has full green.

There now several utilities for most computers
to determine Netscape color codes.

There are also some other sites which have "cgi" programs
running which can help in choosing codes.

This page was meant to be a cross section
of the 16 million codes now available.

Not every browser displays color the same way.
For example, Netscape on Macintosh and Windows will
sometimes dither color that make up the background.
The dithering pattern makes text
difficult to read.

A solution is to create with a graphics program
a small square image filled with the color
that you want for your background.

Then use Netscape's background comand within the body like so:
<.body background="red.gif">
Remember to place a <./body>
at the end of your html file.

What are HTML tags?