Using HEX Colors

HTML code is the major language of the Web. It allows you to write Web pages and enables you to bring together text, sounds, pictures and links to one place.

The HTML color codes are used for different things in basic HTML code.

In the basic HTML code, while defining HTML colors, is the combination of Red, Green and Blue color values are used.

Hex color values are represented by 3 double digit numbers.

You can find some utility which takes a code (#RRGGBB) and converts it to decimal color values (red, green, blue).

A more detailed example of assigning hex color can be like the following lines.

There are 16.7 million different hex colors, where #000000 is black, and # FFFFFF is white.

In hex code, each of the 6 digits is broken into 3 separate groups, where each digit is a value from 0 to F.

The hexadecimal colors, system counts by 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F. Here 0 is null value and F the highest value.

There are a lot of ways to color Web sites.

If you want your site to be compatible for different LCD/monitor settings, you have to know how to use the 'web safe' colors to avoid dithering which causes the colored area to appear speckled.

Moreover, you also can define or mix your own colors.