You can specify colors for text and links in the <body> tag.
<body bgcolor="teal" text="fuchsia" link="yellow" vlink="lime" alink="red">
There are three separate attributes for link colors:
BTW the WebTV browser doesn't see the alink color. The attributes of link and vlink (or alink) do not work in an email signature box but only on a Web page.
If the 16 above named colors don't include the exact hue you're after you can mix your own custom colors by specifying how much red, green and blue light should be mixed into each color.
The format is #RRGGBB where RR, GG and BB are two digit hexadecimal values for the red, green and blue components of the color. The RR, GG, and BB usually appear in the lower case but for easier viewing I will be using using the upper case. When using the hexadecimal number for a color either use of upper or lower case is permissible. Just remember that ff is the maximum and 00 is the minimum and use one of the following codes for each component:
For example: bright red is #ff0000, dark green is #003300, bluish purple is #660099 and medium gray is #999999. To make a page with a red background, dark green text and bluish purple links that turn white when you click them and gray when you have visited them the HTML would look like the following:
<body bgcolor="red" text="#003300" link="#660099" alink="#ffffff" vlink="#999999">
Through the colors you specify in the <body> tag apply to all text on the page you can use either color names or hexadecimal color codes to change the color of particular word or words by using the <font> tag.
Keep in mind that even through you can specify millions of different colors some computers are set to display the 16 above named colors. Other computers only reliably display the 216 Netscape colors.
You can set the color of a particular link to a different color than the rest by putting a <font> tag with a color attribute after the <a href> tag. For example the following would make a green link:
If you like to see my page <a href="URL_here"><font color="green">click here</font></a> when you're ready.
Some older versions of the browser ---Including Microsoft IE 3-- will always display all links with the colors set in the <body> tag. Very old browsers totally ignore some or all of your color specifications.
Here are some additional sites that will demonstrate text style, WebTV colors, font colors, the Netscpape 216 v.3 Color Cube and some other attributes of the <body> tag.
Text Style and Color Demo
Pastel Colors
Skin and Hair Tones
Silver N Greys
Plus
New WebTV Colors and More
Text Color Demo
Font Colors
Tandem Colors by tylwth
Webby Color Grabber
One of The Best From Jerry Hollingshead
X-Quizit's Color Chart For All Upgrades
Bronze, Gold, Copper and Silver Colors
Basic Solid Color Backgrounds
Solid Color Backgrounds
Color Grabber By Tandem Tables
The Professor's List of Colors
eMail Color Tester WebWizardsWays
News Group Color Tester WebWizardsWays
Color Grabber By jawjahboy
The Blue Fox Netscape Color Cube
Size Does Make A Difference
Lucky Bugs Colors
Owens 4 Color Chart
Gradangles~which way do the colors go
Color Chart --Just For You!
Hex to RGB and RGB to Hex Converter by DJ Mike
Named Colors for WebTV by DJ Mike
U-L-T-R-A'S Bgcolor & Text Selector
U-L-T-R-A'S Image & Test Center
Color Maker, bgcolor, Text & Links
Color Code Converter & Font Color Tester
For link and vlink update click here
Here are some sites that will explain how the hexadecimal system counts.
members.tripod.com/~gristle/hexconv.html
www.the-eggman.com/seminars/about_hex.html