<font color=blue></font> - do most browsers display it?

[dan_popescu]

Hi
I wanna use font specifications such as blue, gold etc. Are these options displayed by most browsers?

Thank you
Dan

[korkus2000]

Yes, but you should think about using CSS to color fonts instead of font tags.

[dan_popescu]

Thanks.
Yes, that's what I'm actually using.

Dan

[tbear]

I have a feeling you 'should' use quote marks i.e.
as opposed to: <font color=blue></font>
should put: <font color="blue"></font>
Don't know if it makes much difference, it's just the way I was shown years back.

[tedster]

Here's a page from W3Schools about colornames, including their expansion beyond the original 16. Although color names are supported by major browsers in recent versions, they are not a recommended standard (and may never be, because they are English-centric). However, the W3Schools page still offers a nice reference for colorname to hex conversions, complete witrh a color bar.

W3Schools on Color Names [w3schools.com]

[dan_popescu]

Great. Thanks.
Tedster, thanks for the URL - the reason I was gonna use a colorname was because I didn't know the conversion:)

Dan

[g1smd]

>> Although color names are supported by major browsers in recent versions, they are not a recommended standard (and may never be, because they are English-centric <<

I don't understand this "English-centric" comment. Isn't <table> or <title>, for example, also English-centric?

[hakre]

truly g1smd, and we don't wont to forget that mainly all the stuff is based on the ascii charset... ;)