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1. Luftballon
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no.
repeat after me: Never use a word processor to edit source code.
also, you can just not close the editor.
Hiikaru
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By colour codes, you mean <font color=#123456>, right?
Where it says #123456, use any six numbers you like. The digits represent colours, and they go in the format of RGB (red/green/blue). The first two numbers are for red, the second two are for green, and the last two are for blue.
You can also use letters. #ABCDEF. "FF" in a colour spot represents 255. The maximum number for each colour is 255. So FF0000 (255/255/000/000/000/000) is pure red, 00FF00 is pure green, and 0000FF is pure blue. Also, FFFFFF is white, and 000000 is black. But you don't have to remember any of that if you don't want to, because there are countless easily googleable pages that will tell you the codes for any colour you can think of.
Two things to remember about this code. 1)Spell colour as "color". So far as I can tell, you already do, but it's more important in code. Sometimes it accepts the u, sometimes not. I'm not really sure what makes the difference. 2) Always put a pound sign before the colour. #123456. It's important. This shows the code that you're using a hex, and not a name.
Instead of a hex code, you can also just write out the colour name. <font color=blue>blue texts</font> (notice how you leave out the pound sign # for this). If you just have a simple colour that you want, you can do this instead, although it's probably best to just look it up. Go to Google and search for hex chart. Different sites will give you different sets of colours, so it's best to find one that will let you make up your own. This is pretty good for that if you don't mind the ponies, mostly because you can do multiple colours at once (don't use pound signs on it, though, the silly site doesn't support them).
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Also, I'm not sure if notepad supports this, but you might want to get used to include codes. An include code says "put the stuff file on this page!", and it looks like <?php include ("stuff.php"); ?>
If you have pages A, B, and C, and they all include stuff.php, or footer.php, or whatever you feel like calling it, and then they all have the stuff, and you can change a single file (stuff.php) to change every page. For instance, maybe stuff.php tells the site to have a blue background, and later, you want a green background. You just edit that in stuff.php, and suddenly all the pages on your site that reference stuff.php will turn green, without editing every single one of them.
The important thing to remember here is that if you use includes, all your files should be named whatever.php. It's really easy, just use the .php extension instead of .htm or .html. This will change nothing about your page except for allowing it to use php (and it will still support HTML and CSS).
It might be weird to think about when you don't even have a real web page yet, but if you learn about includes now, it will save you a lot of headaches in the future.
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tl;dr the code you probably want is <font color=#123456>hello I'm pretty text</font>, and you might also want to learn includes because they're the best.
Where it says #123456, use any six numbers you like. The digits represent colours, and they go in the format of RGB (red/green/blue). The first two numbers are for red, the second two are for green, and the last two are for blue.
You can also use letters. #ABCDEF. "FF" in a colour spot represents 255. The maximum number for each colour is 255. So FF0000 (255/255/000/000/000/000) is pure red, 00FF00 is pure green, and 0000FF is pure blue. Also, FFFFFF is white, and 000000 is black. But you don't have to remember any of that if you don't want to, because there are countless easily googleable pages that will tell you the codes for any colour you can think of.
Two things to remember about this code. 1)Spell colour as "color". So far as I can tell, you already do, but it's more important in code. Sometimes it accepts the u, sometimes not. I'm not really sure what makes the difference. 2) Always put a pound sign before the colour. #123456. It's important. This shows the code that you're using a hex, and not a name.
Instead of a hex code, you can also just write out the colour name. <font color=blue>blue texts</font> (notice how you leave out the pound sign # for this). If you just have a simple colour that you want, you can do this instead, although it's probably best to just look it up. Go to Google and search for hex chart. Different sites will give you different sets of colours, so it's best to find one that will let you make up your own. This is pretty good for that if you don't mind the ponies, mostly because you can do multiple colours at once (don't use pound signs on it, though, the silly site doesn't support them).
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Also, I'm not sure if notepad supports this, but you might want to get used to include codes. An include code says "put the stuff file on this page!", and it looks like <?php include ("stuff.php"); ?>
If you have pages A, B, and C, and they all include stuff.php, or footer.php, or whatever you feel like calling it, and then they all have the stuff, and you can change a single file (stuff.php) to change every page. For instance, maybe stuff.php tells the site to have a blue background, and later, you want a green background. You just edit that in stuff.php, and suddenly all the pages on your site that reference stuff.php will turn green, without editing every single one of them.
The important thing to remember here is that if you use includes, all your files should be named whatever.php. It's really easy, just use the .php extension instead of .htm or .html. This will change nothing about your page except for allowing it to use php (and it will still support HTML and CSS).
It might be weird to think about when you don't even have a real web page yet, but if you learn about includes now, it will save you a lot of headaches in the future.
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tl;dr the code you probably want is <font color=#123456>hello I'm pretty text</font>, and you might also want to learn includes because they're the best.
1. Luftballon
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it's usually a bad idea to do this, too:
Code:
<span style='color:blue'>...</span>it's fine if you never intend to change your style, but it's a headache if you use those frequently and then want to fiddle with style.
Diz
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A good site to learn HTML from is www.lissaexplains.com
It's horribly outdated, and has a bad color scheme, but it gets the basics across.
It's horribly outdated, and has a bad color scheme, but it gets the basics across.
Peter Shadeslayer
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Also for color codes, I like http://computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm .
And I don't recommend using PHP code until you have a PHP supporting server. (: On Webs, which is where most start out, USE SSI PLEASE! It's easier and you don't have to change the file extension.
Good luck.
And I don't recommend using PHP code until you have a PHP supporting server. (: On Webs, which is where most start out, USE SSI PLEASE! It's easier and you don't have to change the file extension.
Good luck.
Also, if you want to find a color you want on Windows, just go to MS 'Paint', click 'Colors', than 'Edit Colors...' A box will open in the center of your page. When it does, click on 'Define Custom Colors >>' and than with the '+' on the screen and the bar at the right, find the color and shade of it that you want. When finished open the Calculator and switch from 'Standard' to 'Scientific', and make sure it's on the setting 'Dec'. Than input the numbers of Red, Green and Blue, and convert them (seperatly) into 'Hex'. Than take the numbers/letters you got and put them into your HTML or CSS in #RRGGBB format. This is how I get my colors. But remember, if the number is single digit, then make sure you put a '0' in front.
If you don't know what I'm talking about in terms of the Dec and Hex setting, it's on the left side, right below the white number bar in the 'Scientific' mode.
If you don't know what I'm talking about in terms of the Dec and Hex setting, it's on the left side, right below the white number bar in the 'Scientific' mode.
Lucas₇₅₅
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My alter ego here is correct.
Also, if you have Photoshop, just click on the foreground or background color and look in that text box in the bottom-center.