Excited by HTML?

Red is the traditional color for conveying excitement!

To make all of the text in a document the same color, use the BODY tag attribute: TEXT="#RRGGBB", where RR is the red value, GG the green value, and BB is blue. Each of the three colors require two hexadecimal characters. Note that the correct syntax includes putting the number sign at the beginning of the hexadecimal characters.

Also note that you can omit quotes if you have a value that consists of just one word or number. However, in XHTML you must have double quotes around all attribute values. XHTML is the bridge between HTML and it's successor XML (extensible markup language). You may want to get into the habit of following its rules.

Color names

Colors need not be specified exclusively by hexadecimal code. You can also use certain specific color names, although most of them are not web-safe colors. Here is a chart of acceptable HTML color names.

Oh, and BTW, following are examples of less used tags, the small and the BIG tag:

You can nest the small tag.

If you do, it just makes text even smaller.

...And this the BIG tag.

...And this is two nested BIG tags..

...THREE nested BIG tags.

Note that for html 5 it was decided to support the <small> tag (as in the small print) but not the <big> tag. The acceptance of the small tag based on this premise was debated quite a bit.

Now, have a look at the code.

Your assignment:

1. Save this file with the name B08_yourlastname.html
2. Using the body tag, set the color of all of the page's text to a named color, but do not use the color already being used (saddlebrown).
   • Do not use a hexadecimal number.
   • Do not use the # symbol.
3. Apply three nested BIG tags to the word "excitement" in the second row.
4. Save your file.
5. Preview it in your browser.
6. Send me the file, thanks.

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