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NWE Help: Web: Authoring: HTML: Color
NWE Home :: Help :: Web :: Authoring :: HTML
To color the text, backgrounds, and links of your web document, add some attributes to your <BODY> tag so it looks like this*:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#333366" TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#FF9933" VLINK="#00CC33" ALINK="#ff33cc">
The funny looking bits of text (#FFFFFF, #00CC33) are hexidecimal colors. Here is the way they work (asWe makes this really easy if you click on the body tag and choose "Edit tag...").
- BGCOLOR
- Sets the background color of the page
- TEXT
- Color of most text on the page.
- LINK
- Sets the color of every unvisited link on the page, including borders on images that are links.
- VLINK
- Color of any links you have visited.
- ALINK
- Color of a link while you click on it.
more fun with c o l o r s
There are a few web authoring tools which can help you pick a single color or a group of colors for an entire document in our color directory. One is the color palette which should work in all browsers.
* The HTML code on this page is represented in Blue to make it easier to read.