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Guide to Hacking HTML, which covers this topic as well as some other tricks. You can specify colors for the background, normal text, links, and previously visited links. They can only be set once per page (as far as I know- please mail me if you know a way to get around this!), in the <BODY> command that should be near the top of every page. For those of you more experienced with computers, stick with me while I explain things like Hex and RGB.
To set colors, you have to be able to write hexadecimal numbers. Hex numbers are base 16 numbers, as opposed to base ten. There are sixteen digits; 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E and F, where A .. F equal 10 .. 15 in decimal. Like the ones place and the tens place in decimal, there are a ones place and a sixteens place in hexadecimal. The hex number A4 is 164 in decimal- the A is a ten in the sixteens place, or 160, and the 4 is a 4 in the ones place. LIkewise, 8B is equal to 139 (8*16+11) and F0 is equal to 239 (15*16). A pair of hexadecimal digits can range from 0 (00) to 255 (FF).
You tell the web browser reading your page what colors to use with a <BODY> command. The top of your page should have a specified header, where the title goes, and a body, where everything else goes. Inside the header command, you specify colors with the identifiers "bgcolor", "text", "link", and "vlink", for previously visited links. A formatted page, with colors the same as this one, would look like this:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Your Title Goes Here</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="000000" text="00EEEE" Link="FFEE00" vlink="CC2200"> Your text goes here. </BODY> </HTML>
Setting Colors Page / Evan Dorn/ evan@sccs.swarthmore.edu
