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Text and Link Colors
How to change your Text and Link Colors?
HTML Tutorials
By Jeff Walters
The <BODY> Statement:
First find the <BODY> statement in your HTML code.
Every HTML page has to have a <BODY> statement. What most people don't realize is
that the <BODY> statement can be used to change the text and link colors of your page.
Text Color:
In order to change the page's text color, simply add the TEXT attribute or option to your
already existing <BODY> statement. An example is shown below.
This will change the page's text to a dark green color.
Don't forget to include the "#" sign with your color codes.
For more on colors visit my HTML Color Codes tutorial.
Link Color:
You can also change the colors of your links. In fact, you can change the color of a link, an activated
link and/or a visited link. Let's look at the three attributes a little closer.
LINK="..." This specifies the color of the links on the page;
non-visited links.
ALINK="..." This specifies the color of the activated links in the page;
color during activation.
VLINK="..." This specifies the color of the followed links in the page;
visited links.
Here's an example of a <BODY> statement using these attributes:
<BODY LINK="#00BB00" ALINK="#BB0000" VLINK="#0000BB">
The colors used above were chosen arbitrarily, use any colors you wish.
Play around with different combinations and see what you can come up with.
Don't forget to include the "#" sign with your color codes.
For more on colors visit my HTML Color Codes tutorial.
HTML Tutorials for the Complete Idiot
[ Page Created December 12, 1997 ] [ Last Updated April 2, 2004 ]
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