Hexadecimal numbers/colors
In the world of design and creating HTML bodies, tables, cells...brings on a big world of playing with color. In HTML, you can assign colors in your <body>, <table>,<td>m tags and more by just dropping the name of the color in.
<table bgcolor="red"> <body bgcolor="black">
The
bgcolor stands for
back ground color
Instead of using exact names, you can use what is known as
hexadecimal coding.
Hexadecimal code is a six digit code used to describe colors to the browser through HTML. This makes it possible to have endless shades rather than having to deal with names for twenty-five shades of burnt orange. It'd get kind of ridiculous.
Hexadecimal is composed of 3 sections of 2 digits. Two for
red, two for
green, and two for
blue (which is also known as
RGB color scheme).
The hexadecimal system is based on the number sixteen, and within HTML relate to a value of brightness. It ranges from:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0 is equal to having no value (black) and
F has the highest value (white).
For each color there are two digits for each color(r,g,b) ranging 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 01, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12... ......on up to........EC ,ED ,EE ,EF ,FA ,FB ,FC, FD, FE, FF
Each R, G & B will each have their own code which will be compiled and blended to make a unique hue of color.
When adding a hexadecimal code to an HTML tag, you always add the number(#) sign.
For example: #FFFFFF is WHITE
You may use either....but there are alot of shades and colors that only have hexadecimal numbers.
The proper way of a body tag would look like:
<body bgcolor="#000000">
That would create a page's body background to be black.
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# FFFFFF |
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# FF0000 |
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# 00FF00 |
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# 0000FF |
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# FFFF00 |
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# FFFFFF |
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# FF00FF |
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# BBBBBB |
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# 808080 |
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# 555555 |
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# 000000 |
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# 003399 |
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# 993300 |
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# 00FF33 |
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# 0099FF |
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# 999933 |
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# FF9900 |
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# 666699 |
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# 9933FF |
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# CCCC00 |
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# FFCC66 |
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# FFCCFF |
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# 000080 |
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# 666633 |
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