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Foreground Color

To add color to an HTML element, you use style="color:{color}", where {color} is the color value. For example:

<h3 style="color:blue">HTML Colors</h3>


This results in:

HTML Colors


Background Color

To add a background color to an HTML element, you use style="background-color:{color}", where {color} is the color value. For example:

<h3 style="background-color:blue">HTML Colors</h3>

This results in:

HTML Colors


Border Color

To add a colored border to an HTML element, you use style="border:{width} {color} {style}", where {width} is the width of the border, {color} is the color of the border, and {style} is the style of the border. For example:


<h3 style="border:1px blue solid;">HTML Colors</h3>
This results in:

HTML Colors


Color Names

The most common methods for specifying colors are by using the color name or the hexadecimal value. Although color names are easier to remember, the hexadecimal values and RGB values provides you with more color options.

Hexadecimal values are a combination of letters and numbers. The numbers go from 0 - 9 and the letters go from A to F. When using hexadecimal color values in your HTML/CSS, you preceed the value with a hash (#). Although hexadecimal values may look a little weird at first, you'll soon get used to them.

There are 16 color names (as specified in the HTML 4.0 specification). The chart below shows these color names and their corresponding hexadecimal value.

ColorColor NameHexadecimal Value ColorColor NameHexadecimal Value
Black#000000 Green#008000
Silver#c0c0c0 Lime#00ff00
Gray#808080 Olive#808000
White#ffffff Yellow#ffff00
Maroon#800000 Navy#000080
Red#ff0000 Blue#0000ff
Purple#800080 Teal#008080
Fushia#ff00ff Aqua#00ffff

You can make up your own colors by simply entering any six digit hexadecimal value (preceeded by a hash). In the following example, we're using the same code as above. The only difference is that, instead of using "blue" as the value, we're using its hexadecimal equivalent (which is #0000ff):


<h3 style="color:#0000ff">HTML Colors</h3>

This results in:

HTML Colors


If we wanted to change to a deeper blue, we could change our hexadecimal value slightly, like this:

<h3 style="color:#000069">HTML Colors</h3>

This results in:

HTML Colors

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