In the oldest versions of HTML there were only 16 colours available to use for pages because of the limits of most graphics cards and computer processors. Colours were called on by name and you could set the background, borders, and fonts to any system colours you wished.
<body bgcolor = "lime"> changed background of page lime
<font color = "blue"> changed text blue
The colours available were: white, silver , gray, black, red, maroon, yellow, olive, lime, green, aqua, teal, blue, navy, fuchsia and purple.
Now that technology has improved the basic selection of colours has increased to about 140 specific named colours, all called on by using either their names or their Hexidecimal values.
The chart for colour names and hex values can be seen by clicking here.
HTML is not a Canadian creation, and as such will use the American spelling of colour in all code. Please remember this when creating your own pages.
<body bgcolor = "lime"> changed background of page lime
<font color = "blue"> changed text blue
The colours available were: white, silver , gray, black, red, maroon, yellow, olive, lime, green, aqua, teal, blue, navy, fuchsia and purple.
Now that technology has improved the basic selection of colours has increased to about 140 specific named colours, all called on by using either their names or their Hexidecimal values.
The chart for colour names and hex values can be seen by clicking here.
HTML is not a Canadian creation, and as such will use the American spelling of colour in all code. Please remember this when creating your own pages.