Guidelines for Color
Points to Consider
- Easiest text to read is black text on a white background.
- Be careful when changing the default link colors so you don't confuse the visitor.
- Never make text color the same as your link color.
- Too many text colors on a page hurts the eyes, tread lightly.
Tags to Change Color Attributes
To change entire document body text:
| <body bgcolor="#9932CD"> | Changes the background color of the document to Dark Orchid (default is Grey) |
| <body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF"> | Sets the text color to white, background color to black. (default is black) |
| <body link="#FF0000" vlink="#00FFFF"> | Sets the link color to red, visited link (vlink) color to Cyan. (default: link is Blue, vlink is Purple) |
Change Local Body Text
| <font color="#FF00FF"> your text </font> | Sets text between tags to Magenta. (default is Black) |
Pair Color With Size Attributes in the <font> Tag
| <font size=2 color="#A62A2A">your text </font> | Changes text to text size 2, color Brown. |
View a hex color chart so you know what color to choose.
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