Let’s first take a look at the 16 generic color values we referred to before moving toward the other, more complex HTML coloring systems of numeric and hexadecimal values.
| Black | Gray | Silver | White | ||||
| Yellow | Lime | Aqua | Fuchsia | ||||
| Red | Green | Blue | Purple | ||||
| Maroon | Olive | Navy | Teal |
Any of the aforementioned string values including “teal”, “black”, or “gray” can be passed as a color value to the HTML bgcolor characteristic.
The bgcolor characteristic is utilized in order to determine the background color of an HTML element. Bgcolor is one of those characteristics that have become belittled by the execution of Cascading Style Sheets . The reason we’ve maintained it in this tutorial is due to the fact that it will provide us with an occasion to introduce web colors and supplementing some life to our HTML web page as we continue to move forward through this tutorial. It will be utilized as a visual help for you as you are grasping the mechanics of creating a table.