Those hexadecimal colour numbers you used in task 7 can also be used to change the colour of text. More importantly, you can change the colour of text as often as you like. To do this you’ll use a new HTML tag. To follow the steps below, use a word or phrase in your own page.

Step 1. The HTML tag for changing the text colour is the <FONT> tag. Here’s the tag when it sets the colour of a phrase to red;

This is a <FONT COLOR=”AF0000″>red word. </FONT> Back to black.

And this is how it looks;

This is a red word. Back to black.

Notice that the FONT COLOR command MUST be terminated with a /FONT command. If you forget the </FONT> tag then the rest of your text will be coloured!

Step 2. You can use the same hexadecimal colour codes to experiment with setting the text colour. Here they are again…

BGCOLOR=”#000000“
BGCOLOR=”#0000DD“
BGCOLOR=”#0099FF“
BGCOLOR=”#33CC33“
BGCOLOR=”#99FF66“
BGCOLOR=”#DD0000“
BGCOLOR=”#FF3366“
BGCOLOR=”#FFFF00“
BGCOLOR=”#FFFF66“
BGCOLOR=”#000000“
BGCOLOR=”#663300“
BGCOLOR=”#990099“
BGCOLOR=”#FF0024“
BGCOLOR=”#555555“
BGCOLOR=”#777777“
BGCOLOR=”#FFFFFF“ (white)

Step 3. Now go wild! try setting both background AND font colours!
(Perhaps we should have provided some sick bags, like the airlines!?!