HTML help please! Regarding tables and changing font attributes. - Eternal Allegiance

Meighan · 05-24-2002, 06:53 PM

Hi, I''ve got my tables all st up, I have the the font face I want, but when I do the color tages/whatever, the color doens't cahnge. It's black font ona black background. Any one can help? Here's my code:

Code:

<font face="Arial">
<TABLE BORDER=1 CELLSPACING="10" 
CELLPADDING="15" BGCOLOR="Black" WIDTH="75%">
<TR>
<TH BGCOLOR="black"><font color="white">Date: May. 25th </font>
 </TH>
<TH BGCOLOR="black"><font color="white">Time: 9:10am</font></TH>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="Black">
<font color="white">Listening to:<br><b>Skater Boy - Avril Lavigne</b></font></TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="Black">
Feeling:<br>
Unsure</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="Black">
<font color="white">Eating:<br>
<b>Nothing</b></font></TD>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="Black">
<font color="white">Thinking: <br><b>I want PIZZA!!</b></font></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="Black"
COLSPAN="2">
<font color="white">Uppdates:<br>
<b>New format for updates and such!</b></font></TD>
</TR>

Do i have to write in the font color for each cell? That would suck!

Kostaki · 05-25-2002, 02:34 AM

Unfortunately, you will have to assign colors to each table cell, because there is no way around showing them properly otherwise. If you did BASEFONTCOLOR in the BODY tag, some browsers would not recognize it, and you would have the same results you are having now in those browsers. It's not a big deal really, just type the code in once, and then copy/paste it wherever it needs to go.

Another thing you need to watch out for is not using the color names in the BGCOLOR or COLOR tags. There should be some tools out there, Paint Shop Pro for one, that will convert colors to HTML code.

Colors work like this:
#RRGGBB
R = Red, G = Green, B = Blue

If you use certain combinations from 0-F you can get all kinds of colors. The base colors are the following:

#FFFFFF = White
#000000 = Black

F of course giving you the lightest result, and 0 giving you the darkest result for that field. If you wanted pure blue, you would use #0000FF and so forth.

- Kostaki

Meighan · 05-25-2002, 05:08 AM

Thanks, Kos.