FP: Names and Hex Values for the 16 Common Colors used in HTML Documents

This article lists the names and hex values of the 16 common colors used in HTML documents.

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Several HTML tags allow you to specify colors in HTML documents. For example, to set the background color and the default text color, use the BGCOLOR and TEXT attributes of the BODY tag: To specify the color of specific text, use the COLOR attribute of the FONT tag: The hex values are a combination of six hexadecimal digits that are read left to right in pairs, representing the color levels for Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) respectively. These values allow for 24-bit color resolution, or a total of 16,777,216 possible colors. However, not every computer is capable of displaying all of these colors.

The following table lists the names and hex values for the 16 common colors that all computers should be able to display.



To use a specific color, simply specify the color value or name. For example, using the hexadecimal color values the following HTML sample sets the background color to blue, the default text color to white, and the text color for a specific range to black: Because many browsers support the colors listed in the aforementioned table, you can use the name of the color rather than the hexadecimal color value. The following HTML sample shows how to write this code:

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