Re: colours

by lavalier(at)erols.com

Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:01:39 -0500
To:	"David Ching" <lorax(at)eclipse.co.uk>, "HTML Writers Guild Basic list" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	oemcomputer
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There are a few links I can suggest to view and print out websafe colors:

here you can toggle from a black background to a white background.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/puboff/design/color/index.html

here you can view what different websafe colors look like as text against a white, grey or black background
http://www.habanero.com/hex/hexwt.html

http://www.eons.com/216color.htm

http://www.dotparagon.com/resources/color.html

hope these are helpful.
belle



At 06:18 PM 01/13/2000 -0500, Jason Y. Lee wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>I have been trying to find out more about websafe colours. I am new to HTML
>>and had not come across the concept until I saw a thread in this discussion
>>list. Can someone tell me more or suggest a link that is informative?
>>
>>Another thing I have been struggling with is to change the colour of text in
>>a table. I tried using CSS as follows:
>>TABLE { background-color: #0000FF; COLOR: #ffffff }
>>This works in IE but not in NN4.5
>>Any ideas welcome.
>
>I generally stick with multiples of 33 -- 33, 66, 99, CC, FF; and I also use 80 frequently. For your CSS problem, try TD, TH { ... } instead. Works in both browsers.
>
>- Jason Y. Lee
>- jasonlee(at)panix.com
>
>

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