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6.  What are the color attributes in HTML? Explain.

5 marks | Asked in 2069

Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website. We can specify colors on page level using <body> tag or you can set colors for individual tags using bgcolor attribute.

The <body> tag has following attributes which can be used to set different colors −

  • bgcolor − sets a color for the background of the page.
  • text − sets a color for the body text.
  • alink − sets a color for active links or selected links.
  • link − sets a color for linked text.
  • vlink − sets a color for visited links − that is, for linked text that you have already clicked on.

There are following three different methods to set colors in your web page −

  • Color names − We can specify color names directly like green, blue or red.
  • Hex codes − A six-digit code representing the amount of red, green, and blue that makes up the color.
  • Color decimal or percentage values − This value is specified using the rgb( ) property.

E.g. 

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

   <head>

      <title>HTML Colors by Name</title>

   </head>

   <body text = "blue" bgcolor = "green">

      <p>Use different color names for for body and table and see the result.</p>

      <table bgcolor = "black">

         <tr>

            <td>

               <font color = "white">This text will appear white on black background.</font>

            </td>

         </tr>

      </table>

   </body>

</html>