Colours

TIP

You will find colour differences between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

TIPThere are sixteen predefined colours which do not need the hexnumber code.They are silver, gray, maroon, green, navy, purple, olive, teal, white, black, red, lime, blue, magenta, yellow and cyan. You would write the code as
<FONT COLOR="red"></font>
if you wish to use the colour red.

Background Colours

1 #FF8080	2 #FFFF80	3 #80FF80	4 #00FF80	5 #80FFFF	6 #0080FF	7 #FF80C0	8 ##FF80FF
9 #FF0000	10 #FFFF00	11 #80FF00	12 #00FF40	13 #00FFFF	14 #0080C0	15 #8080C0	16 #FF00FF
17 #804040	18 #FF8040	19 #00FF00	20 #008080	21 #004080	22 #8080FF	23 #800040	24 #FF0080
25 #800000	26 #FF8000	27 #008000	28 #008040	29 #0000FF	30 #0000A0	31 #800080	32 #8000FF
33 #400000	34 #804000	35 #004000	36 #004040	37 #000080	38 #000040	39 #400040	40 #400080
41 #000000	42 #808000	43 #808040	44 #808080	45 #408080	46 #C0C0C0	47 #400040	48 #FFFFFF

Click on a button to change the background color - see which colors go well together.

Choose the colour you want from the table, make a note of the code for that colour and insert it into your HTML page. Note that older versions of the browsers need the # symbol,but newer versions let you leave it out.

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