HTML Color Styles

HTML Web Development Front End Technology

Colors are very important to give a good look and feel to your website.

Hex Code (Hexadecimal colors representation)

A hexadecimal is a 6 digit representation of a color. The first two digits (RR) represent a red value, the next two are a green value(GG), and the last are the blue value(BB).

A hexadecimal value can be taken from any graphics software like Adobe Photoshop. Each hexadecimal code will be preceded by a pound or hash sign #. Following is a list of few colors using hexadecimal notation. Following are some examples of hexadecimal colors −

Let us see an example to implement the Hex style in HTML to represent colors −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   table, th, td {
      border: 2px solid black;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Result</h2>
<table>
   <colgroup>
      <col span = "3" style = "background-color:#00FF00;">
      <col style = "background-color:#00FFFF;">
   </colgroup>
   <tr>
      <th>Id</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Percentage</th>
      <th>Rank</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Tom</td>
      <td>98</td>
      <td>1</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>011</td>
      <td>Kieron</td>
      <td>97</td>
      <td>2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>039</td>
      <td>Gayle</td>
      <td>95</td>
      <td>3</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>017</td>
      <td>Shaun</td>
      <td>92</td>
      <td>4</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Kane</td>
      <td>91</td>
      <td>5</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>025</td>
      <td>Steve</td>
      <td>87</td>
      <td>6</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>013</td>
      <td>Jack</td>
      <td>85</td>
      <td>7</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>023</td>
      <td>Tim</td>
      <td>84</td>
      <td>8</td>
   </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Output

RGB Color Values

The RGB color value is specified using the rgb( ) property. This property takes three values, one each for red, green, and blue. The value can be an integer between 0 and 255 or a percentage.

Following are some of the colors represented with RGB −

Let us see an example to implement the RGB style in HTML to represent colors −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   table, th, td {
      border: 2px solid black;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Result</h2>
<table>
   <colgroup>
      <col span = "3" style = "background-color:rgb(255,0,0);">
      <col style = "background-color:rgb(255,255,0);">
   </colgroup>
   <tr>
      <th>Id</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Percentage</th>
      <th>Rank</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Tom</td>
      <td>98</td>
      <td>1</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>011</td>
      <td>Kieron</td>
      <td>97</td>
      <td>2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>039</td>
      <td>Gayle</td>
      <td>95</td>
      <td>3</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>017</td>
      <td>Shaun</td>
      <td>92</td>
      <td>4</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Kane</td>
      <td>91</td>
      <td>5</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>025</td>
      <td>Steve</td>
      <td>87</td>
      <td>6</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>013</td>
      <td>Jack</td>
      <td>85</td>
      <td>7</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>023</td>
      <td>Tim</td>
      <td>84</td>
      <td>8</td>
   </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Output

HSL Color Values

With HTML, you can also set HUE i.e. ‘H’ stands for hue, ‘S’ for Saturation and ‘L’ for Lightness.

Let us see an example to implement the HSL style in HTML to represent colors −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
   table, th, td {
      border: 2px solid black;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Result</h2>
<table>
   <colgroup>
      <col span = "3" style = "background-color: hsl(300, 75%, 85%); ">
      <col style = "background-color: hsl(200, 30%, 40%);">
   </colgroup>
   <tr>
      <th>Id</th>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Percentage</th>
      <th>Rank</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Tom</td>
      <td>98</td>
      <td>1</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>011</td>
      <td>Kieron</td>
      <td>97</td>
      <td>2</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>039</td>
      <td>Gayle</td>
      <td>95</td>
      <td>3</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>017</td>
      <td>Shaun</td>
      <td>92</td>
      <td>4</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>009</td>
      <td>Kane</td>
      <td>91</td>
      <td>5</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>025</td>
      <td>Steve</td>
      <td>87</td>
      <td>6</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>013</td>
      <td>Jack</td>
      <td>85</td>
      <td>7</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
      <td>023</td>
      <td>Tim</td>
      <td>84</td>
      <td>8</td>
   </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

This will produce the following output −