Using Color

Using Color

Microsoft® Internet Explorer 3.0 allows you to use the following colornames. These supported colornames can be used with the BODY, FONT, HR, MARQUEE, and TABLE tags which are outlined below.

SUPPORTED COLORNAMES

Black

White

Green

Maroon

Olive

Navy

Purple

Gray

Red

Yellow

Blue

Teal

Lime

Aqua

Fuchsia

Silver

Note: This feature is not compatible with Netscape v2.0.

HTML Features Which Use Colornames

BODY

The following attributes can be used with the BODY tag to set color attributes.

Attribute Explanation Example Source

BGCOLOR Sets the background color of the page. <BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY> IExplore

TEXT Sets the text color for the page. <BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK> IExplore

LINK Sets the link color for the page. <BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK LINK=RED> IExplore

VLINK Sets the vlink (already viewed link) color for the page. <BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK LINK=RED VLINK=BLACK> IExplore

Attribute	Explanation	Example	Source
BGCOLOR	Sets the background color of the page.	<BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY>	IExplore
TEXT	Sets the text color for the page.	<BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK>	IExplore
LINK	Sets the link color for the page.	<BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK LINK=RED>	IExplore
VLINK	Sets the vlink (already viewed link) color for the page.	<BODY BGCOLOR=NAVY TEXT=BLACK LINK=RED VLINK=BLACK>	IExplore

FONT

The following attribute can be used with the FONT tag to set the color of the font.

Attribute Explanation Example Source

COLOR Sets the color of the font. <FONT COLOR=BLUE> IExplore

Attribute	Explanation	Example	Source
COLOR	Sets the color of the font.	<FONT COLOR=BLUE>	IExplore

HORIZONTAL RULE

The following attribute can be used with the HR tag to set the color of the horizontal rule.

Attribute Explanation Example Source

COLOR Sets the color of the rule. <HR COLOR=RED> IExplore

Attribute	Explanation	Example	Source
COLOR	Sets the color of the rule.	<HR COLOR=RED>	IExplore

MARQUEE

The following attribute can be used with the MARQUEE tag to set the background color of the marquee.

Attribute Explanation Example Source

BGCOLOR Sets the background color of the marquee. <MARQUEE BGCOLOR=YELLOW> IExplore

Attribute	Explanation	Example	Source
BGCOLOR	Sets the background color of the marquee.	<MARQUEE BGCOLOR=YELLOW>	IExplore

TABLE tags (TABLE, TH, TR, and TD)

The following attributes can be used with the TABLE, TH, TR, and TD tags to set color attributes.

Attribute Explanation Example Source

BGCOLOR Sets the background color. <TABLE BGCOLOR=WHITE> IExplore

BORDERCOLOR Sets the border color, and must be used with the BORDER attribute. <TABLE BORDER>
<TR BORDERCOLOR=BLUE> IExplore

BORDERCOLORLIGHT Sets the color of bordercolorlight, one of the two colors used to draw a 3-D borders, and must be used with the BORDER attribute. <TABLE BORDER>
<TD BORDERCOLORLIGHT=RED BORDERCOLORDARK=GREEN> IExplore

BORDERCOLORDARK Sets the color of bordercolordark, one of the two colors used to draw a 3-D borders, and must be used with the BORDER attribute. <TABLE BORDER>
<TD BORDERCOLORLIGHT=RED BORDERCOLORDARK=GREEN> IExplore

Attribute	Explanation	Example	Source
BGCOLOR	Sets the background color.	<TABLE BGCOLOR=WHITE>	IExplore
BORDERCOLOR	Sets the border color, and must be used with the BORDER attribute.	<TABLE BORDER> <TR BORDERCOLOR=BLUE>	IExplore
BORDERCOLORLIGHT	Sets the color of bordercolorlight, one of the two colors used to draw a 3-D borders, and must be used with the BORDER attribute.	<TABLE BORDER> <TD BORDERCOLORLIGHT=RED BORDERCOLORDARK=GREEN>	IExplore
BORDERCOLORDARK	Sets the color of bordercolordark, one of the two colors used to draw a 3-D borders, and must be used with the BORDER attribute.	<TABLE BORDER> <TD BORDERCOLORLIGHT=RED BORDERCOLORDARK=GREEN>	IExplore

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