Beginner's Guide - Colors

Colors for the entire page are set in the <BODY> tag using the following attributes:

TEXT - Normal text

BGCOLOR - Background

LINK - Unvisited links

VLINK - Visited links

ALINK - Active links, which are only useful on pages with frames, and even then you don't usually see them, so you can ignore them for now.

All of these attributes are set as either color codes (a six-digit hexadecimal number reprenting the red, green, and blue amounts) or color names, both in quotes. Here is a chart of names and codes:

Color	Name	Code
	Black	#000000
	Silver	#C0C0C0
	Gray	#808080
	White	#FFFFFF
	Maroon	#800000
	Red	#FF0000
	Purple	#800080
	Fuchsia	#FF00FF
	Green	#008000
	Lime	#00FF00
	Olive	#808000
	Yellow	#FFFF00
	Navy	#000080
	Blue	#0000FF
	Teal	#008080
	Aqua	#00FFFF

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