Color Table for HTML 3.0
By Jim Hobbs, Online Services Coordinator, Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans
Use the following codes when defining the background color and text and link colors in HTML 3.0 documents. These are the 216 colors which Netscape Navigator can use without dithering. This means that these colors load quickly. Any other colors require mixing two of these colors which takes longer to load. The faster a page loads, the less likely a viewer is to hit Stop and go elsewhere. This list is in alphabetical by color name in three columns.
Here's an example: <body bgcolor="#000015" text="#000020" link="#000050" vlink="#000050" alink="#000050">
And here's an outline of the scheme:
- <body bgcolor="#code"> for background color
- <body text="#code"> for color of text (all non-hyperlinked items)
- <body link="#code"> for color of unvisited links
- <body vlink="#code"> for color of visited links
- <body alink="#code"> for color of active links (while being selected)
Change text color by starting the text with <font color="#code"> and ending it with </font>.
Color can also be used with tables.
- <table bgcolor="#code"> for background color for every cell in the table
- <tr bgcolor="#code"> for background color for every cell in a row
- <td bgcolor="#code"> for background color for one cell
