Chapter 1

Coloring Your World

In This Chapter

arrow Introducing the style element

arrow Adding styles to tags

arrow Modifying your page dynamically

arrow Specifying foreground and background colors

arrow Understanding hex colors

arrow Appreciating HSL colors

arrow Developing a color scheme

HTML does a good job of setting up the basic design of a page, but face it: The pages it makes are pretty ugly. In the old days, developers added a lot of other tags to HTML to make it prettier, but changing the design with HTML code was a haphazard affair. Now, HTML disallows all the tags that made pages more attractive. That sounds bad, but it isn't really a loss. Today, HTML is almost always written in concert with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It's amazing how much you can do with CSS to beautify your HTML pages.

CSS allows you to change ...

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