HTML Color Guide

HTML is the language behind the Internet. While many of today’s best websites use much more advanced languages to generate HTML, all HTML is still parsed by the browser, and without specialized plug-ins non-HTML is not generally handled by the browser. 

One of the features which information marked-up in HTML can possess is color, though many browsers will set defaults for these such as black for text and white for the background. Because HTML is platform and browser independent it has a system to encode colors to make them consistent. This system uses codes to represent different color hues.

The following are resources related to HTML Color Codes.

• Generating Colors in HTML – An overview from the University of Texas
• HTML Tag Reference – Includes information on color attribute in HTML
• HTML Color Tools – A Collection of Resources related to HTML Color
• Colors & Backgrounds – Coding Color in HTML
• What’s Wrong with Font? – Problems with the HTML FONT Tag
• HTML Color Picker in Adobe Photoshop – Using HTML Colors in Photoshop
• Learning CSS – Resources for color in Cascading Style sheets
• Text Colors With CSS – A tutorial
• CSS Color Name Table – Lists text names for HTML Color Codes
• Web Color Reference – A Guide to Web Color
• Cascading Style Sheets –Resources for utilizing CSS
• Color in Web Design – An introduction to color in web design
• CSS Lesson Two – CSS Attributes
• Applying Color with CSS – A Tutorial of CSS Color in Dreamweaver
• Web Safe Color Combinations – A table
• Display Safe Swatches – A Table of Web Safe Colors
• Creative Uses of Web Safe Colors – A Tutorial
• Web Safe Colors – A thorough description of web safe color.
• Color – A reference for Web Designers.
• Adobe Photoshop for Web – A Quickstart for using Photoshop with the Web.
• Web Graphics Handbook – Using Web Safe Colors.
• Age & Web Safe Color Visibility – A discussion of the effects of age on viewing ‘web safe’ colors.
• The Colorful Web – A Discussion of web color palates.
• Top Ten List: Web Safe Colors – A list of web safe colors.
• Choosing Web Safe Colors – A guide.
• Cascading Style Sheets – A Technical Analysis.
• Color Standards – Web Design Standard practices.
• HTML Object Properties – A reference.
• DOM Examples – Color and the HTML Document Object Model.
• XHTML Reference – An overview of XHTML and color.
• The Document Object Model -  A reference for accessing DOM in Phyton
• JavaScript & DOM – A guide to DOM objects with JavaScript.
• The JavaScript DOM – Includes Dynamic Colors Function.