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Q295546: FP: Names and Hex Values for the 16 Common Colors used in HTML

Article: Q295546
Product(s): Word Front Page
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Keyword(s): kbdta
Last Modified: 13-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft FrontPage 2002 
- Microsoft FrontPage 2000 
- Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows 
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SUMMARY
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This article lists the names and hex values of the 16 common colors used in HTML
documents.

MORE INFORMATION
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NOTE: You may receive an error message if you copy and paste the examples
directly from this article to FrontPage. The angle brackets ("<" and ">")
may appear as escaped HTML code ("&lt;" and "&gt;"). To work around this
behavior, paste the script in a blank Notepad document, and then copy it from
Notepad before you paste it into FrontPage.

Several HTML tags allow you to specify colors in HTML documents. For example, to
set the background color and the default text color, use the BGCOLOR and TEXT
attributes of the BODY tag:

  <body bgcolor="#hex value" text="#hex value>

To specify the color of specific text, use the COLOR attribute of the FONT tag:

  <font color="#hex value">

The hex values are a combination of six hexadecimal digits that are read left to
right in pairs, representing the color levels for Red, Green, and Blue (RGB)
respectively. These values allow for 24-bit color resolution, or a total of
16,777,216 possible colors. However, not every computer is capable of displaying
all of these colors.

The following table lists the names and hex values for the 16 common colors that
all computers should be able to display.

  Name        Hex Value 
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  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 

To use a specific color, simply specify the color value or name. For example,
using the hexadecimal color values the following HTML sample sets the background
color to blue, the default text color to white, and the text color for a
specific range to black:

  <body bgcolor="#0000FF" text="#FFFFFF">
  <p>White text on Blue background.</p>
  <p><font color="#000000">Black text on Blue background.</font></p>
  </body>

Because many browsers support the colors listed in the aforementioned table, you
can use the name of the color rather than the hexadecimal color value. The
following HTML sample shows how to write this code:

  <body bgcolor="blue" text="white">
  <p>White text on Blue background.</p>
  <p><font color="black">Black text on Blue background.</font></p>
  </body>

REFERENCES
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For additional information about specifying colors in HTML using FrontPage,
click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

  Q304335 Hex Values for the 216 Color Safe Palette Used in HTML Documents

For more information about HTML syntax, please visist the following World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) Web site:

  http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Additional query words: front page

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