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

Guest Author - Diane Cipollo

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"