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  About the Netscape Color Names

The Netscape Navigator(tm) and Microsoft Explorer(tm) browsers support use of color names, so you do not need to know the hexadecimal triplet for a color, but just type in the name instead, for example <BODY BGCOLOR="black">. But these named colors are not always one of the 256 colors available on Windows or Macintosh computers running in 8-bit mode, so they may be dithered on these displays. Timestream(r) Colors(tm) will insert the name of a selected color into the <BODY> tag, and show its closest location in the 8-bit color picking palette.

Default Colors are:

BGCOLOR="#CCCCCC" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#FF00FF" ALINK="#FF0000"> or Very Light Gray, Black, Blue, Magenta, and Red.

HTML: The BGCOLOR and TEXT attributes of the <BODY> tag

Background color and text color are attributes of the <BODY> tag in an HTML document, so you can only set the background and link colors for an ENTIRE document. You cannot change coloring part way through a document, but you can change portions of text using the <FONT Color="#RRGGBB"> and the <TABLE BGCOLOR="#RRGGBB"> attributes. The backgrounds of table rows <TR>, data <TD>, and headers <TH> can also be colored.

The LINK, VLINK, and ALINK tags

These tags let you control the coloring of link text. VLINK stands for visited link, and ALINK stands for active link. The default coloring of these in most browsers is typically: LINK=blue, VLINK=magenta, and ALINK=red. Again the format for these attributes is the same as that for BGCOLOR and TEXT.