Laboratory 8 Hints

Writing a Web Page--Hints

Adding a background color

Modify the <BODY> tag to read:

The color can be specified as one of the standard colors:

red
green
blue
white
black
gray
cyan
magenta

Hexadecimal color notation
Alternatively you can specify colors in Hexadecimal notation, for example:

In this notation, the first 2 digits refer to the amount of red, the second two refer to the amount of blue and the third pair refer to the amount of green in the color.

#00FF00 refers to bright green

#0000FF refers to bright blue

#FFFFFF refers to white

#000000 refers to black

#2277CC refers to a small amount of red mixed with much more green, mixed with a lot of blue. If you look at the HTML for this page, you will see the body tag is as follows:

Saving an image from the web

You can save any image from the web onto your own local drive as follows.

Right click on the image.
From the resulting pop-up menu, choose "Save image as..."
Follow the dialog boxes to save the image as you would any file.
You can now use the image in your own page (But watch out for copyright violations).