How to change Text Color?

KennyRohan · Jan 21, 2006

At the bottom of my webpage, I notice when I turn text into a hyperlink (i.e., info@marketing.com), the text turns a LIGHT BLUE. I had specified color="#FFFFFF", which is WHITE but it stills comes out light blue. Is there any way around this? Thank you.

manarth · Jan 21, 2006

Learn css. Messing about with font tags and 'color="#FFFFFF"' is a tad outdated.

The traditional way of specifying link colours was to include it in the body tag:
[tt][blue]<body alink="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFCCAA">[/blue][/tt]
[tt][blue]alink[/blue][/tt] for links, [tt][blue]vlink[/blue][/tt] for visited links.

Now we simply use css:

Code:

a {
  color: #fff;
}
a:visited {
  colour: #fca;
}

You can include it in the same page this way:

Code:

<head>
  <title>foo</title>

  <style type="text/css">
    a {
      color: #fff;
    }
    a:visited {
      colour: #fca;
    }
  </style>
</head>

or in a seperate file using a link tag:

Code:

<head>
  <title>foo</title>

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles.css" />
</head>

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Marcus
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TamedTech · Jan 21, 2006

You will find this the case with all links on your page i'm affriad, the default colour it light Blue, Add the following code to the top of your site inbetween the </head> tag and the <body> tag.

Code:

<style>
a {color: #FFFFFF;}
</style>

That will change all the links on your site to #FFFFFF.

Rob

TamedTech · Jan 21, 2006

lol .. pipped me to the post manarth!

manarth · Jan 21, 2006

>>lol .. pipped me to the post manarth!
as an added bonus, I gave the correct answer!

Add the following code to the top of your site inbetween the </head> tag and the <body> tag.

This sounds like you mean:

Code:

</head>

<style>
 [gray]/* styles here */[/gray]
</style>

<body>

This is not valid code...<style> tags belong in the head: i.e. between <head> and </head>.

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Marcus
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TamedTech · Jan 21, 2006

lol ... *stands corrected*

There is lesson to be learned here kids ... don't code your CSS if you've been on the wine!

Rob

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