Colors, Backgrounds, and Other Graphics
Colors |
Backgrounds |
Other Graphics
You can change the background color of a page in the <body> tag as
follows: <body bgcolor=somecolor>. Some of the colors can be given
in words like white, blue, etc. where it says somecolor. To get a wider
variety you will need to use the red-green-blue (rgb) number system that
has been developed where there are two characters for each of the colors
red, green, and blue in every color designation (so you end up with six
characters, preceded by a # sign). The code for white is #ffffff, the code
for black is #000000.
These colors can also be used on text within the
document (in the font tag put color=...), links (link=...), visited links
(vlink=...), and active links (alink=...). All of the link colors are
placed in the <body> tag.
A background can be placed on a page using the <body> tag as well.
The syntax is: <body background="image.gif">. The image.gif can be
any image and could have a .jpg extension instead of .gif (this depends on
how the image was saved). See below for some sites where you can obtain
background images.
Images can also be placed throughout the page using the <img> tag. A
simple example would be
<img src="...path/imagename.jpg"
alt=[image]>. This is how they put arrows and other icons
on web pages, as well as regular pictures.
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