Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Background and Text Colors
To specify blue as the background color for a page, put bgcolor="blue" inside the <body> tag. Of course, you can use many colors other than blue. You can choose from the 16 standard Windows colors: black, white, red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, cyan, purple, gray, lime, maroon, navy, olive, silver, and teal. (You can call magenta by the name fuchsia and cyan by the name aqua if you want to feel more artsy and less geeky.)
You can also specify colors for text and links in the <body> tag. For example, in Figure 11.1 you'll notice the following <body> tag:
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Figure 11.1 You can specify colors for the background, text, and links in the <body> tag of any Web page.
<body bgcolor="teal" text="fuchsia" link="yellow" vlink="lime" alink="red">
As you probably guessed, text="fuchsia" makes the text fuchsia (which is the same as magenta). There are three separate attributes for link colors:
- link="yellow" makes links that haven't been visited recently yellow.
- vlink="lime" makes recently visited links lime green.
- alink="red" makes links briefly blink red when someone clicks them.
Figures 11.1 and 11.2 illustrate how color can be used in combination with links. Because I used pure, beautiful teal as the background color in the graphics images, they blend right into the background of the Web page. (I didn't need to use transparent images, which you'll learn about later in this hour.)
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Figure 11.2 On a color screen, this ever-so-attractive page has a teal background, fuchsia body text, and yellow link text, as specified in Figure 11.1.
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