Head First HTML with CSS

testing and more hex colors
Test drive Tony’s orange headings
Once you’ve made the changes to your “journal.css”
file to add the color property to the “h1, h2” rule,
reload the Web page and check out the results.
376 Chapter 9
What do all these colors have in common? Try each one in a Web page, say as a
font color, or use your photo-editing application’s color picker to determine what colors
they are by entering the hex code into the dialog box directly.
#111111
#222222
#333333
Now both and headings
are orange. This ties in nicely with
Tony’s orange theme and shirt.
The headings are also set off further with underlines.
Hmmm... we thought this would be a good way to
distinguish the headings, but actually they seem to look
a little too much like clickable links, since people tend to
think anything underlined in a Web page is clickable.
Sharpen your pencil
So, underlines may have been a bad choice.
Let’s quickly look at some other text
decorations, then we’ll reconsider these
underlines in the Web page.
#444444
#555555
#666666
#777777
#888888
#999999
#aaaaaa
#bbbbbb
#cccccc
#dddddd
#eeeeee