Tag Attributes
Now let's look at a few options you can add to the <body>
tag -- attributes for text color and background color. The attribute
name for a background color is bgcolor, and the attribute
name for text color is simply text. You add these options
to the body tag like this:
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
This sets the background color to white and the text color to
black. The number sign followed by the 6-digit (or hexadecimal)
alphanumeric code indicates RGB (red-green-blue) color values, which
is how monitors display color variations. There are several Web
sites where you can test various colors and record their hexadecimal
values. Noted Web author Lynda Weinman has a browser-safe
color page that lists both hexadecimal and RGB color values.
There are also several plain-text color names that can be used.
<body bgcolor="white" text="black">
This code produces the same result as the tag used in the previous paragraph.
The plain-text color names that can be used are: black, white, aqua,
blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red,
silver, teal, and yellow.
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