How To Set The Colors On A Webpage - The Body Tag Attributes

You can set the color of the background, links and text on your webpage with the body tag attributes.

Bgcolor Attribute
To set the background color for a webpage use the code below and replace the ffffff with the HTML color code for the color you wish to use. Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
bgcolor="#ffffff"
Background Attribute
To use an image as the background of a webpage use the code below and replace the image.gif with the name of the image you wish to use. If the image is in a subfolder, put the name of the subfolder before the name of the image and separate them with a /.

folder/image.gif

Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
background="image.gif"
Text Attribute
To set the color for the text on a webpage use the code below and replace the 000000 with the HTML color code for the color you wish to use. Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
text="#000000"
Link Attribute
To set the color for the links on a webpage use the code below and replace the 000000 with the HTML color code for the color you wish to use. Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
link="#000000"
Alink Attribute
To set the color for the active (clicked on) links on a webpage use the code below and replace the 000000 with the HTML color code for the color you wish to use. Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
alink="#000000"
Vlink Attribute
To set the color for a visited link (a link already used) on a webpage use the code below and replace the 000000 with the HTML color code for the color you wish to use. Place the code segment inside the opening <body> tag on your webpage.
vlink="#000000"

	Elizabeth Connick BellaOnline's HTML Editor