84 Chapter 5 – HTML OverviewCharacter Entities
Web Design in a Nutshell, eMatter EditionColoring Page Elements
Table 5-4 lists the HTML elements for which you can specify a color. Each tag’s
use is further explained in Chapters 6, 7, and 10 of this book.Character Entities
Characters not found in the normal alphanumeric character set, such as © or &,
must be specified in HTML usingcharacter entities. Using keyboard commands
(such as Option-g for the © symbol) within your HTML document will not
produce the character when the document is rendered in a browser (in fact, the
browser will generally display the numeric entity for the character).
Character entities can be defined by name (&name;) or by numeric value
(&#nnn;). The browser interprets the string to display the proper character.
Named entities are preferable because numeric values may be interpreted differ-
ently on different platforms.Purples
blueviolet
darkmagenta
darkorchid
darkviolet
fuchsia
lavender
lavenderblush
mediumorchid
mediumpurple
mediumvioletred
orchidpalevioletred
plum
purple
thistle
violetPinks
coral
darksalmon
deeppink
hotpink
lightcoral
lightpinklightsalmon
magenta
mistyrose
pink
salmonReds
crimson
darkred
firebrick
indianred
maroon
redTable 5-4: Summary of HTML Tags with Color AttributesTag Attribute Description
<BODY> BGCOLOR=color Document background
<BODY> TEXT=color Regular text
<BODY> LINK=color Hypertext link
<BODY> VLINK=color Visited link
<BODY> ALINK=color Active link
<FONT> COLOR=color Colors a selection of text
<BASEFONT> COLOR=color Colors the following block of text (IE only)
<TR> BGCOLOR=color Table row background
<TD> BGCOLOR=color Table cell background
<TH> BGCOLOR=color Table header backgroundTable 5-3: Web Color Names by Hue (continued)