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Setting Text Color Working with CSS


The CSS color property is used to set text color for an element.

Syntax

The syntax of CSS color property is as follows −

Selector {
   color: /*value*/
}

Example

The following examples illustrate CSS color property −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<style>
div {
   height: 100px;
   width: 200px;
   margin: 10px;
   display: flex;
   float: left;
   font-size: 1.4em;
   word-spacing: 30px;
   line-height: 4.5em;
   border: thin solid blue;
   border-radius: 40%;
   text-align: center;
   color: rebeccapurple;
}
div + div{
   background-color: beige;
   color: red;
   text-align: justify;
   text-decoration: line-through;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>One Two</div>
<div>Three </div>
</body>
</html>

Output

This gives the following output −

Setting Text Color Working with CSS

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<style>
p {
   margin: 10px;
   display: flex;
   float: left;
   border: 3px groove green;
   text-align: center;
   color: rebeccapurple;
}
span{
   background-color: beige;
   color: red;
   text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>What is Tableau?</h2>
<p>Tableau is a Business Intelligence tool for visually analyzing the data. 
<span>Users can create and distribute an interactive and shareable dashboard, 
which depict the trends, variations, and density of the data in the form of 
graphs and charts. </span> 
Tableau can connect to files, relational and Big Data sources to acquire and process data.</p>
</body>
</html>

Output

This gives the following output −

Setting Text Color Working with CSS