Re: colours

by "Jason Y. Lee" <jasonlee(at)panix.com>

Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:18:46 -0500
To:	"David Ching" <lorax(at)eclipse.co.uk>, "HTML Writers Guild Basic list" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	oemcomputer
	todo: View Thread, Original


>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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