How to use custom colors for text and backgrounds on your pages

Technical note:	10022
Created:	07/24/95 by Brian
Updated:	02/28/96 by Brian
Product:	Netscape Navigator

Version 1.1 of Netscape Navigator is able to recognize new options to
the HTML "<BODY>" tag, which let you specify custom colors for the text
and background on your web pages.  Full documentation about how to use
these new options is available on
"http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/", and there are several
examples of this on "http://www.infi.net/wwwimages/colorindex.html".
Basically, they way you specify custom colors is this:
    <BODY TEXT="#rrggbb" BGCOLOR="#rrggbb"
    LINK="#rrggbb" VLINK="#rrggbb" ALINK="#rrggbb">
     ...
    </BODY>
where TEXT is the color of the text on the page (normally black),
BGCOLOR is the background color (normally grey), LINK is the color of
unvisited link text (normally blue), ALINK is the color of link text as
you click on it (normally red), and VLINK is the color of visited link
text (normally purple).
Colors are specified as "#rrggbb", where "rr", "gg", and "bb" are
hexadecimal values from 00 to FF which specify how much red, green, and
blue is used in your color.  "#FFFFFF" is white, "#000000" is black,
"#FF0000" is bright red, "#550000" is dark red, "#FF00FF" is bright
magenta, and so forth.
You can also use BACKGROUND="filename.gif" to specify a GIF or JPEG
image which will be used as your background pattern.  This image will be
tiled across your background; it is not possible to display it
non-tiled.
Netscape Navigator 1.1 had a bug in it whereby it would acknowledge
every "<BODY BGCOLOR=...>" tag (as well as every "<TITLE>" tag) in your
HTML file, and would change the background color (or the title) several
times if you had several of these tags on your page.  This bug has been
fixed in Netscape Navigator 1.2, which correctly ignores any "<BODY>"
tags in your file past the first one.
On "http://www.phoenix.net/~jacobson/rgb.html" is a large number of
"color swatches" that demonstrate what the values are for various
colors.

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