HOW TO BUILD A PROFESSIONAL WEB SITE Rel. 1.1

LESSON 02 - Chapter d

by Carlo Scodanibbio

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Back to our course.
So if you want to add a bit of life to your page, go for instance for a green background colour:

<BODY BGCOLOR="#00FF00">
This is my first Web Page !!! Huh, I am so proud of it !!!
</BODY>

and this is the result:

Much better, isn't it ?
In conclusion, 00FF00 is computer jargon for green, like FFFFFF is computer jargon for white.
Pretty straight forward, uh !

There is something else very important.
More recent Browsers understand human language: instead of a Colour Code you may just specify its human name, like this:

<BODY BGCOLOR="fuchsia">
</BODY>

would work as fine as

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FF00FF">
</BODY>

Here are a few other colour names understood by not so old versions of several Browsers:

aqua (#00FFFF)
black (#000000)
blue (#0000FF)
fuchsia (#FF00FF)
lime (#00FF00)
red (#FF0000)
white (#FFFFFF)
yellow (#FFFF00)

but I would not go wild with them: Browser support is always a bit unpredictable.

Now try yourself to change background colour of your testpage (but do not use "black" or you will see no text at all..... - heh, heh, heh...).

shut-down this HTML story !

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