HTML Help - How to change text color?

[Sandstone]

Nevermind. I got it.

[glow]

I hope your solution didn't involve font tags. It has been deprecated.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by glow

I hope your solution didn't involve font tags. It has been deprecated.

Do you have any more info about that? What's the new solution?

[poika]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Do you have any more info about that? What's the new solution?

the new (not really new anymore?) solution is to style the text using CSS (CSS - Text Properties)

if you want to change the color for blocks of text, set the 'color' property for tags like body, div or p. if you want to change the color just for a few words, wrap them with a span tag and set its color.

[Artelus]

On the css part:
.textarea {
color: red;
}

On the html part:
<p class="textarea">Hello world!</p>

[kevinjones]

You can change color of a text by its attribute. This code will go in the body of your website.

<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"> Blue</FONT>

[poika]

Originally Posted by kevinjones

You can change color of a text by its attribute. This code will go in the body of your website.

<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"> Blue</FONT>

have you read what glow wrote in the first reply? font tags are deprecated and NOT to be used anymore.

[GrigoriySidelnikov]

Originally Posted by poika

have you read what glow wrote in the first reply? font tags are deprecated and NOT to be used anymore.

That may be true but:

1) It will still work, even if it's deprecated.

2) It will not make a difference on anything important. It will not decrease the number of sales a website makes. It will not reduce traffic to the website. In other words, it is irrelevant.

[glow]

Originally Posted by GrigoriySidelnikov

That may be true but:

1) It will still work, even if it's deprecated.

2) It will not make a difference on anything important. It will not decrease the number of sales a website makes. It will not reduce traffic to the website. In other words, it is irrelevant.

Actually that's not true at all.

1) It still works because browsers have got to support older websites.

2) And it will make pretty big differnce on everything that's important. Imagine trying to use font tag to modify all the fonts on this page. It will increase the execution time many fold. And imagine if you want to change the color of headings of your website on a later date. Using CSS, changing a single line of code is enough! Imagine changing font tags on 500 different pages! So execution time is going to sky rocket!

Moreover, more code means more loading time. More loading times means users are more likely to leave. And it also means lower ranking on search engines. So that's definitely going to affect the traffic.
And search engines bettter understand correct HTML, so why not use that?

Correct & standard HTML is more accesible, then bad HTML. More devices can understand it then bad HTML.

And browsers will evetually drop support for tags like font. So why not future-proof your website by using easier to use standards!

Those are some of the important reasons not to go for font tags.

If you're going to design a website that only five people in the world are going to see, then it doesn't really matter what you use. But if your website is going to matter, then stick with the standards.

[Artelus]

Originally Posted by GrigoriySidelnikov

That may be true but:

1) It will still work, even if it's deprecated.

2) It will not make a difference on anything important. It will not decrease the number of sales a website makes. It will not reduce traffic to the website. In other words, it is irrelevant.

Windows ME still works, and using it won't do any harm... but do you still want to?

It's outdated, and isn't supported anymore. Just like old operating systems, in the future new browsers will stop supporting these tags all together. There is no reason not to use CSS.

It's like arguing for using Windows ME under the pretense that "it still works."