How to Use HTML Color

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Eric White and today we're going to talk about how to use HTML color. So you spent some time, created your website and there's a lot of black text everywhere and you want to figure out how to make that text color. Well it's very simple, you're going to use the font tag. Now every color that's interpreted by internet browsers has a tag code like black is 0000000 and, or red for instance, this red right here is two C's and four zeros. So you can Google HTML colors and get any of these color codes. This was the very first one I found when I Googled, but as you can see it's a great number of color shades. So now that you got your color, you can go to your website. Let's go ahead and open it up with notepad. Alright so your tag opens in this format. The syntax is less than the symbol and the word font and then the space and then color equals and then open quote and then your code, your color code. In this case I used the code for blue. And you're going to close your quote and then put a greater than symbol and then everything after this tag is going to be effected by it until you put in the tag terminator. So this is your text, this is, this will make your text blue, and then we close the tag by using the less than symbol, forward slash, the word font and the greater than symbol. And this is what it looks like. See it says, "this will make your text blue", and your text is blue. So now that you know the syntax, you know how to change the color in HTML."