Web Design

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Set Text Color .......................................................

● When viewed in a browser,

the text on the page is now

in the specified color.

1 In your editor, open a page

that contains an embedded

style sheet with an existing

body style declaration.

2 Within the declaration, type

color: #?;, replacing?

with a hexadecimal value for

the color you want to use.

Set Text Color

T

he CSS color property technically applies a color to the foreground of any element. In practice,

however, only text is in the foreground; thus, the property is used most often to change the

color of text. Be sure that the color you choose fits within your site’s design, but also provides

sufficient contrast with the background of your page to ensure that the text remains readable. You

can apply color to entire blocks of text, or, as is shown in later sections, to individual words or even

characters.

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