Colors
are very important to give a
good look and feel to your website.
The following figure shows the default body tag, which is not having any
background color but to make our website colorful we can include color of our
choice or theme by the attributes available in HTML4.
You can specify colors on page level using
<body> tag or you can set colors for individual tags.
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
For
Example :-
In the
following code, bgcolor is set as “black”, text color is as “white”, all links
will be of purple color, the link which is already visited is of green in color
and the active link means having cursor on it, is of Red color.
<html>
<head>
<title>The beauty of
life</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="black"
text="white" link="Purple" vlink="Green"
alink="Red">
<h1>The beauty of life</h1>
<p>This morning I woke up feeling
different...</p>
<a href="color.html"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="color.html"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="#"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="#"> Click to check </a>
</body>
</html>
In the
following figure, you can see all the color which I had set for all the above
attributes
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 make 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 has listed 16 basic
color names that will validate with an HTML validator but there are over 200 different color
names supported by Netscape
and IE.
W3C Standard 16 Colors: - please
see from internet
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, Jasc Paintshop Pro or even using Advanced Paint
Brush.
Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #. Following are the examples
to use Hexadecimal notation.
For example :- #FF0000,#00FF00,#0000FF,#FFFF00,#00FFFF,#FF00FF,#C0C0C0,
#FFFFFF
For
example
<html>
<head>
<title>The beauty of
life</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FF5588"
text="#2233FF"" link="Purple" vlink="green"
alink="red">
<h1>The beauty of life</h1>
<p>This morning I woke up feeling
different...</p>
<a href="color.html"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="color.html"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="#"> Click to check </a>
<br>
<a href="#"> Click to check </a>
</body>
</html>
HTML Colors - RGB Values:
This color value is specified using the rgb( )
property. This property takes three values, one each for red, green, and
blue. The value can be an integer between 0 and 255 or a percentage.
NOTE: All the browsers does not support rgb() property of color so it is recommended not to use it.
For example :-
rgb(0,0,255)
rgb(255,255,0)
rgb(0,255,255)
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