htmlcolors

What attributes does bgcolor support

The bgcolor tag takes different words and changes the color.

What actually happens? Does it take the ASCII values?

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Background Color</title>
    </head>

    <body bgcolor="Daniel"></body>
</html>

When I assign random words to the bgcolor tag, it applies some kinda color. How does it work?

Solution

  • By taking a screenshot of the page rendered by your code, and selecting the rendered pink-ish color in Photoshop, you can see that it's #da00e0.

    DAniEl, only A-F and 0-9 are kept, and the others are zeroed.

    I'm pretty sure if you use bgcolor="Cyrille" you'll have plain red (#C00000).

    (Edit: actually, Cyrille gives #c000e0)

    By the way, you shouldn't even be using this bgColor attribute. CSS is here for one reason!