HTML Text Color Code
You can use the following HTML code to specify color text within your HTML documents.
In HTML, color is applied using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). More specifically, to set the foreground color of an element, you use the color
property. To set the background color, use the background-color
property.
Text Color - Inline Styles
Using inline styles, your code is inserted within the HTML element that you want to apply color to. This is done by using the style
attribute along with the <span>
tag.
Text Color - Embedded Styles:
Using embedded styles, the CSS code is inserted between the <style>
tags within the head of the document.
Text Color - External Style Sheet
If you have a multiple page website, you should consider placing your text color code into an external style sheet. This makes it much easier to maintain the styles across your whole website.
Choosing your Colors
There are millions of different colors to choose from when creating color schemes for websites. The easiest way to choose your colors is to use this color picker.
More Text Codes
Here's a list of the various text/font properties you can use on your website.
- font
- font-family
- font-size
- font-size-adjust
- font-stretch
- font-style
- font-variant
- font-weight
- letter-spacing
- line-height
- color
- background-color
- text-align
- text-decoration
- text-indent
- text-shadow
- text-transform
HTML Reference
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HTML Tutorial
Free HTML tutorial that explains how to code in HTML.
This tutorial explains what HTML elements and attributes are, and how to use them.
I explain the basics, such as what you need in order to write HTML and how to create your first web page.
I then cover other HTML topics including tables, adding color, images, forms, image maps, iframes, meta tags, and more.
I also explain the difference between HTML and CSS (and when to use each one).
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HTML Tags
Full list of all HTML elements.
This is an alphabetical list of HTML elements, linking to a full page of details for each element.
All elements are based on the official HTML5 specification, and include usage notes, full attribute list, as well as links to the various specifications for each element (i.e. HTML4 spec, HTML5 spec, WHATWG spec).
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CSS Properties
Full list of CSS properties.
Alphabetical list of CSS properties as per the W3C specifications.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is the standard way to style web pages.
You can use CSS to set the style for a whole website in one place. CSS allows you to set colors, fonts, widths, heights, margins, padding, and much more.
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