Adding some C O L O R to your webpages

The most obvious way to add color to your pages is to include colorful images, using the IMG tag:

<IMG SRC="myphoto.gif" ALT="A photo of me">

But you can also change the colors of the HTML part of the page. Attributes affecting whole page go on the BODY tag:

<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffcc">

Colors in HTML are specified as a color name, or as #RRGGBB, a hexadecimal red-green-blue triplet:

attribute

meaning

 Netscape default 

BGCOLOR

page background

grey (#CCCCCC)

TEXT

normal text

black (#000000)

LINK

link text

blue (#0000FF)

VLINK

visited links

purple (#660099)

ALINK

active link

red (#FF0000)

BACKGROUND

URL of image for bkg

none

Warning: you can create a totally unreadable document by choosing too bold a background (example) .

Warning: be sure your document is in the right general form:

    <HTML> <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Your title</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY (and BACKGROUND= BGCOLOR= etc.) >
    The document body goes here...
    </BODY> </HTML>

TABLEs -- more background colors

Starting in MS IE 2.0 and Netscape 3.0:

    <TABLE BGCOLOR=color>
    <TD BGCOLOR=color>

Bug alert: Colored cells mustn't be empty in Netscape.

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