Colors
Even though your text and link colors have already been specified in your opening < body > tag, you may change font colors for selected text within your body using a color command inside of an opening font tag. To specify the change, format your font tag as follows: < font color= >
< font color=red > produces RED
< font color=#ff3333 > produces RED
< font color=navy > produces NAVY BLUE
< font color=#000055 > produces NAVY BLUEColor Codes
If you wish to use named colors in your font tags, you must consider which browsers do, and which browsers do not support the color selection you have made. In their quest for market control*, the competition between the two better known browsers ... MicroSoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) and Netscape (NS) ... have resorted to protectionist measures. This of course leaves us, the users, caught in the middle. Like so many other users, I am searching for a new, more user-friendly browser that is a simple browser only. Linux is rapidly moving in this direction :).
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* Let me briefly explain the war of the browsers as I personally see it. MSIE has allowed the use of named colors and shades since MSIE3.0. This left NS in a race to catch up as their browser permitted only 6 digit color codes. Netscape has now provided for named color codes in their version 4.0 + and is limited to only about 12 basic colors. Instead of the big two talking to each other and making life a litte easier for the end users of their products, these two giants preferred to compete. I do not wish to pass any value judgements here or imply that one or the other is right or wrong. What I do wish to accentuate however, is that by not making named colors available, NS made it a little more inconvenient for us all. At the same time, in their relentless battle for monopoly, MSIE disregarded the value of sharing their technologies to the detriment of their users. Considering this lack of compassion for the end users on the part of both parties, I anxiously await the rise of an independant who does value the end user's comfort. I wish to express that these comments are my own opinion and that, stated without predjudice. *grin*.