Chapter 1
Coloring Your World
In This Chapter
Introducing the style element
Adding styles to tags
Modifying your page dynamically
Specifying foreground and background colors
Understanding hex colors
Appreciating HSL colors
Developing a color scheme
HTML does a good job of setting up the basic design of a page, but face it: The pages it makes are pretty ugly. In the old days, developers added a lot of other tags to HTML to make it prettier, but changing the design with HTML code was a haphazard affair. Now, HTML disallows all the tags that made pages more attractive. That sounds bad, but it isn't really a loss. Today, HTML is almost always written in concert with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It's amazing how much you can do with CSS to beautify your HTML pages.
CSS allows you to change ...
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