ColorColor plays an important role when creating your webpage. Too much color can overwhelm your visitors, while not enough can make your page look drab. When selecting colors for your page, make sure that your text can be read on your background, whether it is a background image or a background color. Color can be set for Document Text, Backgrounds, Tables, Table Cells, Table Borders, Links, Horizontal Rules, Frame Borders, and applied to Text Fonts added to a page. Important Note: A problem with using color name is that they don't always appear as they should. Some colors can look different between Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers.
Also, you can make up your own color name. Even though it would be an invalid name, the browser will display a weird color.
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Specify Color:
Colors can be specified using two formats. One is by specifying a "Color Name". The second and prefered format is to specify the hex (or hexadecimal) color value.
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Color Name
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There is a total of 140 defined color names available for Netscape and Internet Explorer browser. Of these, 16 common color names are recognized by most browsers.
I will not attempt to list all 140 name, but the 16 common color names are:
Aqua, Blue, Fuchsia, Gray, Green, Lime, Maroon, Olive, Purple, Red, Silver, Teal, White, Yellow, Navy, and Black.
For a listing of all 140 color names, visit: Learning Web Design
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Hexadecimal Color Value
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Hexadecimal number are used in Html to specify different color values on a page. For example the color red would be written as hexadecimal "#FF0000". This would be equivalent to the RGB decimal value of 255-0-0. Here are a few samples of hexadecimal colors:
#3366FF #9966FF #FFFF66 #FF0099
#33FFFF #00FFCC #FF6133 #C8B19B
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Web Safe Color Palette
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This palette consists of 216 colors the will not dither. View my Color Picker page or visit any of these sites for color charts:
Doug's RGB Hex Color Chart
Lisa's Color Chart
Hypergurl.com
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