More than 16 Million colors are available for use in MySpace. Seventeen colors have defined names in HTML. These colors can be selected using their name. Here are the 17 named HTML colors:

aqua	black	blue	fuchsia	gray	green	lime	maroon	navy
olive	orange	purple	red	silver	teal	white	yellow

For example, you can create an HTML table with a red background using the following code:

I'd really like a red background for this text. Let's see if this code works...

What about the other 16,777,999 HTML colors?

The other 16,777,999 colors must be selected using their hexadecimal code. In HTML, there are multiple ways to select colors using hexadecimal codes. However, some of these methods involve the use of the "pound" .. character, which MySpace does not allow (for security reasons).

If you'd like to use a hexadecimal color selector in MySpace, the only method available is to use a six-character string of hexadecimal digits. A "hexadecimal digit" can be any of the following characters:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

For example, here's some code that creates an HTML table with a background color selected using a randomly selected hexadecimal color code:

<table bgcolor="3399DD"><tr><td>
Hmm... I wonder what color this code is going to produce???
In any case, since I've specified 6 hexadecimal characters for my color code, 
I should get a valid table that displays this text on a colored rectangular background.
I hope I picked a color that doesn't make my black text unreadable...
</td></tr></table>

This code produces the following when it's displayed in a web browser:

Hmm... I wonder what color this code is going to produce??? In any case, since I've specified 6 hexadecimal characters for my color code, I should get a valid table that displays this text on a colored rectangular background. I hope I picked a color that doesn't make my black text unreadable...

Yup, it's readable.


Give me the color I want!

But we don't really want to just randomly enter hex codes every time we want a colored background on a profile, bulletin, or blog post. So, here's a chart that shows some of the colors that are available.

Note that all 16,777,216 available colors are NOT included in this table. With 16 colors in each row, a table that shows all the colors would more than 4 miles long on a typical computer screen! That's how many colors are actually available in HTML.

Here are 64 of the HTML colors, along with their hexadecimal color codes:

5500FF	5500AA	550055	550000	000000	000055	0000AA	0000FF
5555FF	5555AA	555555	555500	005500	005555	0055AA	0055FF
55AAFF	55AAAA	55AA55	55AA00	00AA00	00AA55	00AAAA	00AAFF
55FFFF	55FFAA	55FF55	55FF00	00FF00	00FF55	00FFAA	00FFFF
FFFFFF	FFFFAA	FFFF55	FFFF00	AAFF00	AAFF55	AAFFAA	AAFFFF
FFAAFF	FFAAAA	FFAA55	FFAA00	AAAA00	AAAA55	AAAAAA	AAAAFF
FF55FF	FF55AA	FF5555	FF5500	AA5500	AA5555	AA55AA	AA55FF
FF00FF	FF00AA	FF0055	FF0000	AA0000	AA0055	AA00AA	AA00FF

If you want a color between two of the adjacent shades above, experiment by selecting a hexadecimal code that is "between" the two displayed codes. In doing this, you should consider the letters A-F to be digits greater than 9. For example, the hexadecimal digit A is one greater than the hexadecimal digit 9, the hexadecimal digit C is three greater than 9, and the hexadecimal digit F is 5 greater than hexadecimal digit 9.


References

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